BOTH articles were published in the October 27,2004 edition of the science journal Nature. The authors are Mike Morwood and Peter Brown, researchers from the University of New England in New South Wales, Australia, claiming to have found a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, at Liang Bua on the island of Flores in East Nusa Tenggara.

The finding and its publication in Nature immediately caused a controversy among scholars. Dr Teuku Jacob and