Tag: island dwarfism

Study of Pleistocene proboscidean fossils from Cabarruyan Island, Philippines, reveals micro-anatomical insights into dwarf elephant evolution.

via Journal of Human Evolution, December 2020: Comparing the limbs of an island fox with its mainland counterparts, this paper ...

via Biology Letters, 09 October 2019: A new paper presents simulations of body size evolution based on island dwarfism, and ...

I remember posting about the Palau hobbits 10 (!) years ago when the story came out, and how there was ...

A new study based on CT scans of the hobbit skulls suggest that homo erectus may possibly have been an ...

Two papers published in nature last week lended more credence to the theory that the Indonesian Hobbit, homo floresiensis, is ...

The news is abuzz today as two papers published in this week's Nature lend support to the theory that the ...

The National Public Radio's Science Friday programme has a 12-minute interview with Lee Berger, the principal investigator of the Palau ...

Following the suggestion from last week's controversial paper about the nature of the Flores Hobbits comes a new discovery that ...

Another book review of "A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia" by ...