So where is the larger Homo erectus founding population on Flores? 🤷♀️ They arrived small - probably from an early Homo-like population (maybe even early H erectus), but not likely from Javan H erectus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Early evolution of small body size in Homo floresiensis - Nature Communications
How small-bodied hominins in southeast Asia became so small ~60 thousand years ago is unclear. Here, the authors present hominin remains dated to 700 thousand years ago with even smaller body size, su...