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A hobbit skull, left, next to the skull of a human.
 
Are hobbits hiding in human family tree?
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Most of the fights have been over whether hobbits were truly a distinct species given their small size or just diseased humans, or whether creatures with their small brains could have used tools. But the latest skirmish appears in the current Journal of Human Evolution, where John Trueman of the Australian National University (ANU) drags the puny pre-human species which stood less than four feet tall and went extinct more than 12,000 years ago into a fight over whether researchers should depict humanity's origins as a family tree. Read more
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