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'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 ...
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New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils
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Dec 07, 2009 |
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Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.
'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils
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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 ...
Hippo's island life helps explain dwarf hobbit (w/Video)
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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.
New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle
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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 ...
Make that E-Hobbit: Digital Tolkien arrives
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A major new name has been added to the digital library: J.R.R. Tolkien.
'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species, concludes UM anthropologist
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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 ...
Bone parts don't add up to conclusion of Palauan dwarfs
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs of these ...
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 ...
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 ...
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