A follow up from the previous press release describing the Hobbit debate. [...]
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It turns out that the Indonesian Hobbit, the homo floresiensis, is not a new species of human being but an abnormal variation of ours. Oh well. It was fun to entertain the thought while it lasted. [...] Stone tool finds beside hobbit suggest that they inherited tool-making tradition from homo erectus predecessors. [...] The theory of the Hobbit man, or Homo floresiensis is under debate now as primatologist Robert Martin questions if this is not a new species, but instead a modern human suffering from microcephaly which results in small body and brain size. [...] |
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