Drought may have doomed the ‘hobbits’ of Flores

A new climate record suggests that Homo floresiensis — pint-size human relatives nicknamed “hobbits” — endured thousands of years of intensifying drought before disappearing from their Indonesian island home of Flores. The prolonged drying may have stressed both the hobbits and the miniature elephant-like animals they hunted for food, researchers report December 8 in Communications…

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