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It was a watershed finding--it confirmed for scientists that this hominid was related closely enough to us to add the "Homo" to the Homo erectus name.
What has really excited the researchers is the discovery that these early humans are far more primitive-looking than the Homo erectus humans that were, until now, believed to be the first people to migrate out of Africa about 1 million years ago.
floresiensis was not Homo erectus but instead some other, more primitive, hominin whose dispersal into southeast Asia is still undocumented," the researchers conclude.
 
 
 
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