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Vol 1 Ep 10 - The spread of Homo sapiens, Part One

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Homo Floresiensis

A skeleton of a female hominine has been found on the island of flores. It is believed to have stood at three and a half feet tall, around two million years old. The bones do not show modern adaptations that can be found in homo sapians or hmoniande talensis species. This raises questions as to whether there was any competition for resources such as food with larger hymo-sapians. But so far no evidence suggests this could have happened. If it did then we need to find out how they got to australia.

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