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Hobbit debate goes out on some limbs

Arm and leg fossils may, or may not, come from nonhuman hominid

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

ALBUQUERQUE — Two fossil hobbits have given what’s left of their arms and legs to science. That wasn’t enough, though, to quell debate over hobbits’ evolutionary status at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists on April 17.