The Homo floresiensis Controversy
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The Homo floresiensis Controversy
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Colin Groves
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Flores Hobbit; Homo floresiensis; Homo erectus; Homo habilis; microcephaly
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A completely new and unexpected quasi human species, Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the Hobbit, was described in 2004 from Liang Bua, a cave in Flores. Like many important new contributions to the human fossil record in the past, many commentators refused to believe that a new species had been discovered, and the type specimen was interpreted as a pathological modern human, usually as a microcephalic dwarf. There is no substance to these claims: close analysis shows that Homo floresiensis is not only a genuinely new species, but that its closest affinities lie with Plio-Pleistocene African species such as Homo habilis, so that it documents an earlier dispersal of hominins from Africa and had hitherto been suspected.
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2008-04-04
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application/pdf
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http://www.ijonline.net/index.php/HAYATI/article/view/211
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HAYATI, Journal of Biosciences; Vol 14, No 4 (2007)
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en
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