@article {330223,
	title = {Early evolution of small body size in Homo floresiensis},
	journal = {Nature Communications},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2024},
	month = {2024/08/06},
	pages = {6381},
	abstract = {<p>Recent discoveries of Homo floresiensis and H. luzonensis raise questions regarding how extreme body size reduction occurred in some extinct Homo species in insular environments. Previous investigations at Mata Menge, Flores Island, Indonesia, suggested that the early Middle Pleistocene ancestors of H. floresiensis had even smaller jaws and teeth. Here, we report additional hominin fossils from the same deposits at Mata Menge. An adult humerus is estimated to be 9\&thinsp;\&minus;\&thinsp;16\% shorter and thinner than the type specimen of H. floresiensis dated to ~60,000 years ago, and is smaller than any other Plio-Pleistocene adult hominin humeri hitherto reported. The newly recovered teeth are both exceptionally small; one of them bears closer morphological similarities to early Javanese H. erectus. The H. floresiensis lineage most likely evolved from early Asian H. erectus and was a long-lasting lineage on Flores with markedly diminutive body size since at least ~700,000 years ago.</p>
},
	isbn = {2041-1723},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50649-7},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50649-7},
	author = {Kaifu, Yousuke and Kurniawan, Iwan and Mizushima, Soichiro and Sawada, Junmei and Lague, Michael and Setiawan, Ruly and Sutisna, Indra and Wibowo, Unggul P. and Suwa, Gen and Kono, Reiko T. and Sasaki, Tomohiko and Brumm, Adam and van den Bergh, Gerrit D.}
}
