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Homo Floresiensis Extinct

The hobbit-sized hominid species vanishes from Flores, likely through volcanic catastrophe and pressure from arriving modern humans, closing one branch of the human evolutionary tree.

When50000 BCE

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Homo floresiensis, also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit", is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago.

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