Anthropologist Suggests Homo floresiensis May Have Survived Until Modern Times on Flores Island
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Manasee Wagh
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Anthropologist Gregory Forth explores the possibility that Homo floresiensis (the "hobbit" hominid discovered on Flores Island, Indonesia) may not be extinct. Based on local eyewitness accounts of small, hairy, ape-like humanoids in the remote mountains of Flores, Forth suggests that this early human relative could have survived for tens of thousands of years beyond what scientists believe. His 2022 book, "Between Ape and Human," documents these encounters and challenges mainstream paleoanthropological timelines.
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· 3 pulledThey told him that they sometimes caught glimpses of a small humanoid animal, a kind of 'ape-man,' short in stature and hairy.
Forth believes it's possible that an early type of human—whose bones paleoanthropologists discovered in a mountain cave on Flores—could have survived the past 50,000 years in the isolated region.
Three-foot-tall 'ape-men' defied survival expectations. One researcher isn't convinced they're entirely gone.
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