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Yale professor receives $2 million to bridge genomics representation gap (Yale Daily News)

Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins (Quanta Magazine)

Bodies Keep Shrinking on This Island, and Scientists Aren't Sure Why (New York Times)

Small height evolved twice on 'Hobbit' island of Flores (BBC News)

Pygmy people in Indonesia not related to 'hobbit' but evolved short stature independently (ABC News)

How islands shrink people (Science)

The Hunt for the Ancient ’Hobbit’s’ Modern Relatives (National Geographic)

A New Genetic Study Suggests Modern Flores Island Pygmies and Ancient Hobbits Are Unrelated (Smithsonian Magazine)

The modern pygmies of Flores are not related to Homo floresiensis (Ars Technica)

A Twist in Our Sexual Encounters With Other Ancient Humans (The Atlantic)

Humans bred with this mysterious species more than once, new study shows (The Washington Post)

Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people – twice (New Scientist)

Finding our inner Denisovan (Nature)

DNA from Mysterious 'Denisovans' Helped Modern Humans Survive (Live Science)

How a Distant Ancestor's DNA Helps Reveal What Makes Us Human (The Atlantic)

How extinct humans left their mark on us (BBC News)

DNA Study Points to Prehistoric Hanky-Panky With Neanderthals (NBC News)