- Rethinking "Hobbits": What They Mean for Human Evolution - Scientific American
New analyses reveal the mini human species to be even stranger than previously thought and hint that major tenets of human evolution need revision
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rethinking-the-hobbits-in-indones...
- Flores Man
News@nature.com special report on the species of the tiny human who lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores just 18,000 years ago.
www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html
- Hobbit-Like Human Ancestor Found in Asia
National Geographic article with pictures and illustrations of the species of tiny humans, Homo floresiensis, that lived between 85,000 and 13,000 years ago.
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html
- Wikipedia: Homo floresiensis
Hyperlinked article about the newly described species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and recent survival.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
- Homo floresiensis: The Hobbit
Profile of the species of dwarf human discovered at the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003.
www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/flores.html
- The Loom: The Hobbit's Brain
Science journalist Carl Zimmer summarizes the significance of the H. floresiensis discovery.
www.corante.com/loom/archives/2005/03/03/the_hobbits_brain.php
- Hobbits in the Haystack: Homo floresiensis and Human Evolution
Turkana Basin Institute Seventh Human Evolution Workshop is a public symposium that focuses on a prehistoric hominin that has recently gained international celebrity status, the enigmatic Homo floresiensis.
turkanabasin.org/humanevolution
- johnhawks.net: Flores Dwarf Hominids
Collection of articles and blog commentaries arguing about the lineage of Homo floresiensis.
johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/flores
- Indonesia's Lost World: Shaking Up the Family Tree
Overview of the archaeological discovery that revealed until at least 13,000 to 12,000 years ago modern humans shared this planet with a totally different species of human being, Homo floresiensis.
www.archaeology.org/online/features/flores
- Homo floresiensis: Some Initial Reactions to the Publication of the Discovery and Replies From Brown & Morwood
Looks at the wide range of reactions to the discovery of Homo floresiensis from the palaeoanthropological world.
www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/journal_20044/news
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