Congratulations to Dr. Kira Westaway for winning one of the Science Gongs for her research with the homo floresiensis.
photo credit: Ryan Somma
Hobbit researchers win science gong Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October 2009
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This week’s rojak features the dying tradition of gong tuning in Vietnam, and a case of stolen tradition in a spat between Indonesia and Malaysia. And a special treat for those who missed the Hobbit Symposium earlier this year. photo credit: roktobaren [...] Been a pretty busy last few weeks, hence my lack of regular posts and rojaks. This week’s edition links to images of the Bujang Valley, a visit to Kampong Cham and the history of the Hobbit. photo credit: plassen [...] Yet another paper lends support to the idea that the Flores Hobbit is a seperate species and not a deformed human. This time, a study uses cladistics, or the comparison of physical characteristics to determine ancestry, and determined through computer modelling that homo floresiensis split off from homo sapiens nearly two million years ago. Pretty [...] This week, we step into an ancient boat (at least, a reconstruction of one), mull over small brains and tools, and figure out a contested temple’s role in politics. This and more in today’s edition of rojak! photo credit: andy_carter Anton Diaz takes us inside the Balangay boat, which is due to set sail this [...] Two papers published in nature last week lended more credence to the theory that the Indonesian Hobbit, homo floresiensis, is a separate species (for the reports of the two studies, read here). Here are some more news reports, videos and podcasts that have featured the latest hobbit studies. Small Brain Of Dwarf ‘Hobbit’ Explained [...] The news is abuzz today as two papers published in this week’s Nature lend support to the theory that the Hobbit represents a new species. One study of the Hobbit’s foot reveals that while the hobbit was bipedal, it did not walk like humans and probably could not run very well. Another study compared the [...] Last week, the Stony Brook University in New York hosted a one-day symposium at the Turkana Basin Institute entitled Hobbits in a Haystack: Homo floresiensis and human evolution. In this edition of rojak, we’ll be focusing on some of the buzz from the symposium. photo credit: ideonexus [...] The cast of the controversial Liang Bua 1 hobbit was unveiled to the public on Tuesday at a special symposium at Stony Brook University in New York. The buzz is certainly exciting in the US, but it should be noted that many Indonesian and Malaysian colleagues are highly skeptical of the Hobbit representing a new [...] Prof Mike Morwood of the Wollongong University is giving this year’s Mulvaney Lecture at the Australian National University. He led the team that was responsible for the discovery of the Indonesian hobbit, or Homo Floresiensis. 2009 Mulvaney Lecture – Hobbits in Context: Hominin Biogeography in Island South East Asia Lecture Theatre 1, Manning Clark Centre, [...] |
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