"A male Homo floresiensis may have looked something like this"
(Image: National Geographic) -- BBC

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"LB1, the Homo floresiensis type specimen, found at a depth of 5.9m in the limestone cave of Liang Bua on Flores, Indonesia."
(Image: Peter Brown)

"LB1 was an adult female that stood just one metre in height"
(Image: National Geographic) -- BBC

"When a new fossil is found it is often claimed that it will rewrite the anthropological textbooks.  But in the case of an astonishing new discovery from Indonesia, this claim is fully justified."
-- Chris Stringer

In the News . . .

Will 'hobbit' tooth yield ancient DNA? -- MSNBC (10 January 2011)

Why the Fossil 'Hobbit' of Flores Isn't so Strange -- Discovery News (23 June 2010)

Hobbit Debate Goes Out on Some Limbs -- Science News (19 April 2010)

'Hobbit' island's deeper history -- BBC News (18 March 2010)

How a Hobbit Is Rewriting the History of the Human Race -- Guardian (21 February 2010)

Is the Hobbit's Brain Unfeasibly Small? -- ScienceDaily (27 January 2010)

'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils -- ScienceDaily (19 November 2009)

The identity of the tiny human-like creature discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004 has become clearer -- and more astonishing, thanks to a new analysis by Australian and Indonesian scientists -- The Australian (19 August 2009)

Hobbits 'are a separate species' -- BBC News (6 May 2009)

"Hobbits" Were Separate Species, Skull Suggests -- National Geographic News (23 January 2009)

'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human -- Science Daily (21 January 2009)

Skull study evidence of 'hobbit' species, claims US anthropologist -- Guardian (8 January 2009)

"The skull of
Homo floresiensis
can only hold a brain that's about 380 cc. in size."

 

 

 

"The modern human skull [at left] holds a brain that measures between 1,400 and 1,500 cc." 

(Peter Brown)

• FLORES MAN -- Nature.com
  
  
  • Little lady of Flores forces rethink of human evolution -- Rex Dalton
  • Flores, God and Cryptozoology -- Henry Gee
  • The Flores find -- Michael Hopkin (interview: Peter Brown, who led the analysis, and Mike Morwood, who directed the Flores dig, give their reflections)
  • A stranger from Flores -- Chris Stringer (analysis)
    
    
• Hobbit -- Homo floresiensis -- Ellie Crystal
  
  
• 'Hobbit' joins human family tree -- Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world -- BBC
  
  
• Scientists Find Ancient Hobbit-Sized People Skeletal Remains Reveal Human Species That Measured 3-Feet High -- ABC News
  
  
• Tempest in a Hobbit Tooth -- Science (24 April 2008)
  
  
• "Hobbit" Discovered: Tiny Human Ancestor Found in Asia -- National Geographic News
  
  
• "Hobbit was 'not a diseased human'" -- BBC
  
  
• Indonesia may be teeming with Hobbits -- ABC News in Science
  
  
• Indonesian scientist says Flores hominid not new species -- Yahoo News
  
  
• Experts split over human Hobbit remains -- ABC News in Science
  
  
• Flores, God and Cryptozoology:The discovery of Homo floresiensis raises hopes for yeti hunters and, says Henry Gee, poses thorny questions about the uniqueness of Homo sapiens -- (27 October 2004) -- Nature News
  
  
• Little People of Flores -- Nova scienceNOW
  
  
• Miniature People Add Extra Pieces to Evolutionary Puzzle -- The New York Times
  
  
• The Mystery of the Human Hobbit: An Exciting new Discovery, or an Embarrassing Blunder? -- from the BBC "Horizon" series
  
  
• Our not so distant relative -- The Guardian
  
  
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