AS YET, no one can agree on her name. She is known variously as LB1, the Hobbit or Ebu, derived from a local legend about Ebu Go Go, a small, waddling creature with a big appetite. But become known she will, for Ebu – let’s call her that for now – is perhaps one of the most important humans yet recorded.
Ebu’s remains were unearthed in September 2003 in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, a 14,000-square-kilometre hotbed of volcanic activity and earthquakes some 1500 kilometres from Jakarta (see “Meet our new human relatives”). It is hard to…
