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Figure 9. Although this strik-
ing image of a male hobbit,
illustrated by the artist Peter
Schouten, sparked the imagina-
tions of scientists and the public
alike, Hobbit (LB1) was female.
Courtesy of Peter Schouten.
All of a sudden Hamlin said, “Whoooooa!”
“What?”
“I'm sitting in front of my computer, and I can't
believe
how quickly
the news is coming up around the world.” While we continued to talk,
I called up a news site on my computer and watched in amazement as
Hobbit stories popped up one after another. Any doubts that I may have
had about Hamlin's story vanished. The accounts mentioned that two
articles about
Homo floresiensis
would appear in
Nature
the following day.
The first focused on the skeleton of LB1, and its lead author was the
