Hobbit Debate Turns Nasty
22 August 2006 (ABC News in Science) - A follow up from the previous press release describing the Hobbit debate. Am still waiting for the article to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (delay probably due to time difference).
A new paper has inflamed the debate over the hobbit’s origins, with one researcher criticising the scientific journal that published the research.
A paper in today’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) is the second this year to conclude that the hobbit is just a sick human.
Indonesian researcher Professor Teuku Jacob, from Gadjah Mada University, and an international team argue that the hobbit is a microcephalic pygmy rather than a new species of hominid.
Related Books:
- A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the “Hobbits” of Flores, Indonesia by M. Morwood and P. van Oosterzee
- Little People And a Lost World: An Anthropological Mystery by L. Goldenberg
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Tags: Flores, Flores man, Gadjah Mada University, homo floresiensis, Indonesia archaeology, microcephaly, Teuku Jacob
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