As no one has been able to recover DNA from the fossils of Homo floresiensis (nicknamed the “hobbit”), researchers had to create a tool for finding archaic genetic sequences in modern DNA. The ...

They then compared the genetic analyses to the DNA of more than 2,500 modern individuals from 225 populations across East Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and more. 3:50 ...

Instead of being a genetic legacy of Homo floresiensis interbreeding, the current population's short stature is due to natural selection that took place over the past 30,000 years or so.

The remains of an individual Homo floresiensis were discovered in 2003 ... The researchers also found traces of highly divergent genetic sequences in Denisovan DNA — extracted from specimens ...

A modern Indonesian is about 5 feet 2 inches (1.6 meters), a modern Pygmy living on the island of Flores is about 4 feet 10 inches (1.5 m) and Homo floresiensis stood about 3 feet 5 inches (1.0 m ...

With advances in genetic sequencing, researchers can now extract and sequence human DNA from bones that are hundreds of thousands of years old. ... “Homo denisova”. Homo floresiensis ...

The rats of Flores aren’t your average rodents; this is as true today as it was when H. floresiensis roamed the landscape.One of the rat species alive today is as large as a small dog, and while ...