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Analysis of the diminutive cranium of Homo floresiensis—a tiny hobbit-like human that lived in Indonesia just 13,000 years ago—confirms it as a unique species and reveals remarkably advanced features for such a small brain…

Dean Falk, an expert on brain evolution at Florida State University, US, who has analysed the skull of H. floresiensis says it has some remarkably advanced morphological features, including ones associated with complex brain processes in living humans… This adds weight to the theory that H. floresiensis may have possessed an intelligence and tool-building ability traditionally associated with much larger-brained humans.