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Alas poor Hobbit

The tiny Hobbit from Flores is at the centre of a storm over human evolution, writes Cheryl Jones.

'They seem to lack the capacity to recognise a village idiot when they see one," Alan Thorne has said of the scientists who discovered the remains of the Hobbit which they described as an extinct species of human on the Indonesian island of Flores.

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