In today's New York Times, Nicholas Wade describes the latest findings of archaeologists Michael Morwood and Peter Brown concerning the newly discovered Flores Man (Homo floresiensis), dated between 95,000 to 13,000 years ago, and recovered from Liang Bua rockshelter, on the isolated island of Flores, Indonesia. The news report is based on an article in today's issue of the journal Nature, which includes commentaries from several of the major lights in paleoanthropology supporting Morwood's and Brown's findings. At the moment Homo floresiensis is considered a downsized Homo erectus species.

NYT (probably requires a log in) New Species Revealed: Tiny Cousins of Humans

Nature Little lady of Flores forces rethink of human evolution