Little Species, Big MysteryThere is only one kind of human on earth today: us. But we are only one of a number of human speciesprimates of the Hominini tribethat have existed on our planet across the millennia. In 2004, the world was astounded by the discovery of Homo floresiensis, a species of human never encountered before, on the island of Flores in the Indonesian archipelago. A very short, thickset being, with long arms and feet and an appetite for stegodons (a now extinct