Small is beautiful for early people of Indonesia

摘要

Every year we seem to come across new evidence concerning the origins of humans and necessity for renaming some of the strange ancestors and distant cousins that emerge from the mists of time.In Nature for 28 October 2004 and Science for 29 October 2004 there are accounts of the discovery of a race of diminutive humans only about a metre tall and possessing a brain the size of a grapefruit,similar to that of a small chimpanzee.