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#HomoFloresiensis #HobbitHumans #HumanEvolution In 2003, the bones of an adult woman smaller than an elementary school student were discovered in a cave on Flores Island, Indonesia. She stood 1 meter 6 centimeters tall and weighed 25 kilograms. It was not a disease. All 15 sets of bones were the same size. The island where these tiny humans lived was like a fairy tale. A world where horse-sized miniature elephants, giant storks larger than humans, and Komodo dragons weighing four times as much coexisted. And the protagonist of this fantasy world was the smallest and weakest being. These people, who used brains the size of chimpanzees to start fires, crafted 10,000 stone tools, and hunted elephants weighing 20 times their own body weight. They endured for hundreds of thousands of years. Until we arrived. This video covers everything from the discovery of Homo floresiensis (Hobbit humans) to the mechanisms of island dwarfism, their remarkable survival strategies, and their bittersweet extinction. ⚠ This video was produced for educational and informational purposes, and the information contained herein is for reference only. Some content may change based on the latest academic research. Please check the references below directly for accurate information. 📌 References Brown, P. et al. (2004). "A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia." Nature, 431, 1055-1061. Sutikna, T. et al. (2016). "Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia." Nature, 532, 366-369. van den Bergh, G. et al. (2016). "Homo floresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores." Nature, 534, 245-248. Argue, D. et al. (2017). “The affinities of Homo floresiensis based on phylogenetic analyzes of cranial, dental, and postcranial characters.” Journal of Human Evolution, 107, 107-133. Tocheri, M. et al. (2007). “The Primitive Wrist of Homo floresiensis.” Science, 317, 1743-1745. Falk, D. et al. (2005). “The Brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis.” Science, 308, 242-245. Meijer, H. & Due, R. (2010). "A new species of giant marabou stork (Aves: Ciconiiformes) from the Pleistocene of Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia)." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 160, 707-724. Nature Communications (2024). "Early small body size in Homo floresiensis ancestors." (New Mata Menge fossil) Communications Earth & Environment (2025). "Climate change and the extinction of Homo floresiensis." (Climate extinction hypothesis) #FloresIsland #KomodoDragon #IslandDwarfism #Prehistory #Archaeology #Anthropology #AncientHumans #ExtinctHumans #ParadoxOfEvolution #LiangBuaCave #Indonesia #LibraryOfHumanity