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Real Hobbits?

NOVA Now by GBH

Aug 4, 202623:24Science & Medicine

Ella Al-Shamahi says the iconic picture of human evolution is all wrong. She joins Hakeem to take apart the conventional image of the straight-line march of evolution from ape to modern human. The fossil and DNA record t...

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Real Hobbits? is an episode from NOVA Now by GBH. Ella Al-Shamahi says the iconic picture of human evolution is all wrong. She joins Hakeem to take apart the conventional image of the straight-line march of evolution from ape to modern huma...

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Published Aug 4, 2026, 23:24 long, audio available.

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