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Slideshow: Lost Tribe of Little People

On a remote Indonesian island, archeologists were astonished to discover a new, small human species that walked the earth just 18,000 years ago. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Peter Brown examines the skull of a new species of small-bodied human his colleagues discovered on an Indonesian island in September 2001.

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Australian and Indonesian researchers discovered a new species of small-bodied human. Full grown, the people were just a meter tall with a brain the size of a grapefruit. Researchers were shocked to learn they lived on earth just 18,000 years ago.
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Australian and Indonesian researchers discovered a new species of human. Full grown, the people were just a meter tall with a brain the size of a grapefruit. Here the newly discovered skull sits next to a modern human skull.