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A Big Debate on Little People: Ancient Species or Modern Dwarfs?
October 12, 2005, Wednesday
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD (NYT); Foreign Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 11, Column 1, 983 words
DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 983 WORDS -New discoveries in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, notably another jawbone, appear to give additional support to the idea that a separate species of little people new to science and now extinct lived there as recently as 12,000 years ago. But a vigorous minority of skeptical..."