Homo Floresiensis is a hominid species whose remains were discovered on the island of Flores in 2003. Although it's exact identity and origin are in dispute, H.Floresiensis was considered sufficiently anatomically different to constitute a new species. It's discovery has generated debate over hominid culture and dispersal. Most significantly it has effected uncertainty about the path of "modern human" evolution as well as the relationship between physical characters e.g. encephalisation, height etc and 'intelligence'.
DISPERSAL & SURVIVAL
A significant aspect of the discovery of H. Floresiensis is that they survived as recently as 18,000 years ago as confirmed by radiocarbon (C14) dating . This makes them the most recent non-modern hominid far outliving homo neanderthalensis, which is thought to have gone extinct 30,000 years ago . As a result H.Floresiensis is thought to have been contemporaneous with modern humans who arrived in the region 35,000-55,000 years ago, but who survived where H.Floresiensis didn't.
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