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Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Could 2007 see some new hobbits? I certainly hope so....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:38 PM • 14 Comments •
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Homo floresiensis: Two Years Out
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Two years ago this month, I was taken aback by some explosive news. A team of Indonesian and Australian scientists reported that they had discovered fossils of what they claimed was a new species of hominid. It lived on the...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:21 AM • 40 Comments •
Return of the Microcephalic Hobbit
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
The Sunday Times in the UK reported yesterday on an upcoming paper that claims that the ever-fascinating Homo floresiensis (a k a the Hobbit) is not a new species, as previously reported. Instead, it was a human with a genetic...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 7:45 AM • 10 Comments •
Hobbits: Happy, Healthy, Human?
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
It's been twenty months now since scientists reported discovering fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores belonging to a three-foot-tall hominid with a brain the size of a chimp that lived recently as 12,000 years ago. Homo floresiensis, as this...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:24 PM • 18 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Small Girls with Sharp Rocks
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
When we speak of the Hobbit, let us not forget her tools. Last year, scientists reported discovering fossils of a three-foot-tall hominid that they named Homo floresiensis, and which I can't keep myself from calling the Hobbit. Its bones turned...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:13 AM • 2 Comments •
Jakob the Hobbit?
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
It's been a little over a year and a half now since scientists announced the disocvery of the most controversial fossil in the field of human origins: Homo floresiensis a k a the Hobbit. Scientists found bones of a dimunitive...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 2:01 PM • 16 Comments •
Kate Wong on the Hobbit Trail
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Kate Wong, Scientific American's excellent paleo reporter has a two-parter on the latest dish on Homo floresiensis a k a the Hobbit. No cymbal crashes, I'm afraid, but interesting nonetheless....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 8:56 PM • 2 Comments •
Do Not Arm-Wrestle With Hobbits
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Peter Brown, one of the discoverers of Homo floresiensis a k a the Hobbit (previous posts here), had a few interesting remarks in an article in today's Oregon Daily Emerald: Though the hobbit people were very small -- the adult...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:02 PM • 16 Comments •
Hobbit As Monkey?
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Well, here's an idea I haven't heard of before... Last year scientists found the bones of what they recognized as a new species of hominid that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. They named it Homo floresiensis, and its...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:37 AM • 11 Comments •
Whose Brain Is It Anyway? (The Further Hobbit Adventures)
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Finally, more brains. On Tuesday I wrote about how the second batch of Homo floresiensis bones had at last seen the scientific light of day. Today the critics who don't think the Hobbit is a new species are making...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:14 AM • 7 Comments •
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