Editing Hobbit (section)

=== Fossil hominids ===

The skeletal remains of several diminutive [[paleolithic]] [[Hominina|hominids]] were discovered on the [[Indonesia]]n island of [[Flores]] in 2004. The fossils, of a species named ''[[Homo floresiensis]]'' after the island on which the remains were found,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Morwood |first1=M.J. |last2=Soejono |first2=R.P. |last3=Roberts |first3=R.G. |last4=Sutikna |first4=T. |last5=Turney |first5=C.S.M. |last6=Westaway |first6=K.E. |last7=Rink |first7=W.J. |last8=Zhao |first8=J.-X. |last9=van&nbsp;den Bergh |first9=G.D. |last10=Awe Due |first10=Rokus |last11=Hobbs |first11=D.R. |last12=Moore |first12=M.W. |last13=Bird |first13=M.I. |last14=Fifield |first14=L.K. |display-authors=5 |date=28 October 2004 |title=Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia |journal=Nature |volume= 431 |issue=7012 |pages=1087–1091 |doi=10.1038/nature02956 |pmid=15510146 |bibcode=2004Natur.431.1087M |s2cid=4358548 }}</ref> were informally dubbed "Hobbits"<ref name="NYT-20160620">{{cite news |last=Zimmer |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Zimmer |title=Are Hobbits real? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/insider/are-Hobbits-real.html |date=20 June 2016 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=21 June 2016 }}</ref> by their discoverers in a series of articles published in the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=P. |last1=Brown |first2=T. |last2=Sutikna |first3=M.J. |last3=Morwood |first4=R.P. |last4=Soejono |author5=Jatmiko |first6=E. |last6=Wayhu Saptomo |first7=Rokus |last7=Awe Due |title=A new small-bodied hominin from the late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |year=2004 |volume=431 |issue=7012 |pages=1055–1061 |doi=10.1038/nature02999 |pmid=15514638|bibcode=2004Natur.431.1055B |s2cid=26441 |url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/15287/files/PAL_E2586.pdf }}: {{cite journal |last1=Morwood |first1=M.J. |last2=Soejono |first2=P. |last3=Roberts |first3=R.G. |last4=Sutikna |first4=T. |last5=Turney |first5=C.S.M. |last6=Westaway |first6=K.E. |last7=Rink |first7=W.J. |last8=Zhao |first8=J.-X. |last9=van den Bergh |first9=G.D. |last10=Due |first10=Rokus Awe |last11=Hobbs |first11=D.R. |last12=Moore |first12=M.W. |last13=Bird |first13=M.I. |last14=Fifield |first14=L.K. |display-authors=5 |date=28 October 2004 |title=Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=431 |issue=7012 |pages=1087–1091 |doi=10.1038/nature02956 |pmid=15510146 |bibcode=2004Natur.431.1087M |s2cid=4358548 |ref=none}}</ref> The excavated skeletons reveal a hominid that (like a Hobbit) grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child and had proportionately larger feet than modern humans.<ref>{{cite web |last=McKie |first=Robin |title=How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/feb/21/hobbit-rewriting-history-human-race |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=21 February 2010 |access-date=8 January 2011}}</ref>