Mini monkey holds clue to Flores hobbit evolution

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2907, 2013, pág. 13
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The hobbit's skull is similar to that of a taller hominin, Homo erectus. This suggests to some that H.floresiensis, whose remains were found on an Indonesian island 10 years ago, was a dwarf species that evolved from this larger one. However, its brain and teeth are proportionally much smaller than in typical dwarf species, which others say indicates the hobbit is merely an unusual form of human species. But perhaps the hobbit was not a typical dwarf. Here, Barras talks about the evolution of flores hobbit.