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Published online 25 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060821-12
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Will the hobbit argument ever be resolved?
Debate over tiny human's evolutionary status is set to rage on.
For the past two years, researchers have been hotly debating (and coming dangerously close to fighting over) whether the fossils of a diminutive hominin found in Indonesia are those of a previously unknown species. The publication this week of some long-standing doubts over the 'hobbit' fossils show the debate is far from over.
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