Search results for homo floresiensis
'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species, concludes UM anthropologist
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 17, 2008 |
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University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest paleoanthropological ...
Hippo's island life helps explain dwarf hobbit (w/Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 07, 2009 |
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Ancient Madagascan hippos have shed light on the origins of the small brain of the 1-metre-tall human, known as the hobbit, scientists at the Natural History Museum report in the journal Nature today.
'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...
'Hobbit' fossils a new species, anthropologist says
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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An analysis of an 18,000-year-old fossil, described as the remains of a diminutive humanlike creature, proves that genuine cave-dwelling "hobbits" once flourished in Southeast Asia, according to a Long Island anthropologist ...
New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 06, 2009 |
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A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis—the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago -- may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how si ...
Micronesian Islands colonized by small-bodied humans
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Since the reporting of the so-called “hobbit” fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced, for some reason, in stature, or whether ...
More 'Hobbit' bones are discovered
Oct 11, 2005 |
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Paleontologists digging on the remote Indonesian island of Flores say they've found more bones of Homo floresiensis, a tiny hominin species.
Incredible journey through 'hobbit' brain
Mar 03, 2005 |
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Florida State University professor and chair of anthropology Dean Falk led an international team of scientists on an incredible virtual journey through the tiny brain of an 18,000 year-old hobbit-sized human. What they found ...
New research confirms Indonesian 'Hobbit' was a new species
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Sep 20, 2007 |
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An international team of researchers led by the Smithsonian Institution has completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the “hobbit,” a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four ...
Anthropologist confirms 'Hobbit' indeed a separate species
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Jan 29, 2007 |
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After the skeletal remains of an 18,000-year-old, Hobbit-sized human were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, some scientists thought that the specimen must have been a pygmy or a microcephalic ...
New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth
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Aug 26, 2008 |
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Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens). The research ...
Experts blow mega-tsunami theory out of the water
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 04, 2008 |
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The theory that ancient mega-tsunamis once swamped the Australian coast – leaving deposits up to 30km inland – is severely undermined by the archaeological evidence, a conference at The Australian National University will ...
Neanderthal extinction hypothesis offered
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May 01, 2007 |
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A Spanish study suggests climate changes might have caused the extinction of the Neanderthals on the Iberian Peninsula.
'Hobbit' tools found near remains
Oct 15, 2005 |
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Researchers say they have found "Hobbit" tools on an Indonesian island near where the remains of nine ancient individuals were found.
Harvard scientist says we are what we eat -- and what we cook
Jun 01, 2009 |
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"You are what you eat." Can these pithy words explain the evolution of the human species?
