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	Homo floresiensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Homo floresiensis ("Man of Flores") is the proposed name for a possible species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and survival until relatively recent times.
		Homo floresiensis certainly coexisted for a long time with modern humans, who arrived in the region 35,000–55,000 years ago, but it is unknown how they may have interacted.
		In the May 19, 2006, issue of the journal Science, Robert D. Martin of the Field Museum in Chicago and some co-authors argued that the fossil of Homo floresiensis appears to be that of a modern human with microencephaly, a disorder resulting in a small brain and other defects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homo_floresiensis (2704 words)

	Chronofile: BCE Hominidian_Species List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Homo habilis was short and had disproportionately long arms compared to modern humans, however it had a reduction in the protrusion in the face.
		Homo erectus would bear a striking resemblance to modern humans, only having a brain about 75 percent of the size of that of a modern human's.
		However, Homo erectus was almost the same size as modern humans, while these individuals are all remarkable for their small stature (less than 3.5 feet tall).
	hometown.aol.com /eilatlog/chronofile/timeBCE-S2b-species.html (7651 words)

	Light Seeking Light: Latest on the Flores Hobbit
		Controversy has raged ever since the first fossil was found as to whether the remains were evidence of a new hominid species, Homo Floriensis, or were a microcephalic homo erectus.
		The discoverers believed the Hobbit to be the smallest of the 10 species of Homo erectus, the primate that emerged from Africa about 2.5 million years ago and whose ultimate descendant is Homo sapiens, as anatomically modern man is called.
		The new fossils consist of the right elbow and two bones of the lower forearm of the first skeleton; the mandible of a second individual; and assorted other remains, including two tibiae, a femur, two radii, an ulna, a scapula, a vertebra and various toe and finger bones.
	lightseekinglight.blogspot.com /2005/10/latest-on-flores-hobbit.html (1026 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries :: Hobbits or orang pendek ?
		She was certainly distinctive enough to be given a new species name, Homo floriensis, after her home island.
		But what made the Hobbit so newsworthy was not that she was one of our direct ancestors - in fact, we probably last shared a common ancestor with her about a million and a half years ago - but the fact that her kind had survived at all for so long.
		What we do find in Homo erectus, however, is a new body shape that has the same long legs, narrow hips and barrel chest that modern humans have - features associated with a more efficient form of striding walk that was good for covering long distances in a nomadic, migratory lifestyle.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /viewnews.php?id=34923 (481 words)

	Homo Floresiensis Fossil Find on Flores Page
		Homo floriensis is believed to be the surviving members of an archaic group that was related to Homo erectus.
		Homo erectus is an older hominid species that is thought to be ancestral to modern human beings.
		Consequently the Homo erectus population evolved into the archaic dwarf form, Homo floresiensis, that was recently found in the Liang Bua caves on Flores.
	www.floresgirl.com /the-find-homo-floresiensis.htm (742 words)

	Hobbit-Like Human Ancestor Found in Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Named Homo floresiensis, after the island on which it was found, the tiny human has also been dubbed by dig workers as the "hobbit," after the tiny creatures from the Lord of the Rings books.
		Homo floresienses has been described as one of the most spectacular discoveries in paleoanthropology in half a century—and the most extreme human ever discovered.
		Homo erectus has been classified as archaic humans with brains ranging from 650 to 1,250 centimeters, and ranging in height from1.55 to 1.78 meters tall.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html (1032 words)

	Science & Philosophy :: View topic - Out of Africa theory, true or not?
		Just like modern homo sapiens, H. erectus also had it's own variation and albeit that H. ergaster from Africa is generally the same species with variation.
		Because Homo erectus in China began to have more human characteristics by less than 200,000 to 400,000 years ago, if the multiregionalist theory is correct the strongest point so far would be peoples of Eastern Asian descent diverged directly from Homo erectus populations.
		Homo floriensis was unlike modern pygmy peoples found in Africa today.
	www.sciencechatforum.com /bulletin/viewtopic.php?p=1304 (1957 words)

	Homo floresiensis Grave on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		This is the site at Liang Bua in Flores, Indonesia where the fossil bones of Homo floresiensis were discovered.
		The green hues convey the mood of a gruesome grotto.
		I suppose that Homo floresiensis is still a controversial matter among specialists, inspite of the discovery of other skeletons?
	www.flickr.com /photos/21178134@N00/291237294 (213 words)

	The Times - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Homo floriensis was supposedly a descendant of Homo erectus, a long-extinct ancester of modern man. There was even the faint hint that somewhere in an Indonesian jungle these tiny people might still flourish.
		Teuku Jacob, the 79-year- old doyen of palaeoanthro- pology in Indonesia, promptly declared that the remains were simply those of a modern human with a congenital disease that caused a shrunken brain case.
		Professor Jacob added that the bone on which the description of Homo floriensis was based was male, not female as the Nature paper had claimed.
	avantgo.thetimes.co.uk /services/avantgo/article/0,,1386936,00.html (531 words)

	Neuroscience and intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Here is a list of some species, along with their rough average brain sizes:
		Homo neanderthalensis: 1200-1750 cm³ skull capacity (10% greater than modern human average)
		Surprisingly, epidemiological studies have shown that intelligence is positively correlated with body height in human populations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neuroscience_and_intelligence (597 words)

	RevolutionaryLeft.com > Hobbit bones discovered...
		Homo is just a part of the name for a human (we are homo sapiens) and floriensis because she was found on the Indonesian island of Flores.
		Homo Sapiens and Homo Floriensis must have had a fair bit of contact over a long period of time.
		If those tools were made by Homo Floriensis, it raises some interesting questions about their technological progress over time, or whether they learned toolmaking methods from Homo Sapiens.
	www.revolutionaryleft.com /lofiversion/index.php/t30159.html (645 words)

	Our not so distant relative \| Life \| Guardian Unlimited
		The implication was that the toolmakers, presumably Homo erectus, were capable of navigating the open sea.
		It is possible that once marooned on Flores, a population of Homo erectus set its own evolutionary course, morphing into Homo floresiensis.
		Of perhaps more current concern to anthropologists is the degree to which Homo floresiensis, with its small stature and - especially - tiny brain, will force a redefinition of humanity, at least in terms of anatomy.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/feature/story/0,13026,1337198,00.html (1554 words)

	Hobbits again. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future
		The scientists argued that Homo floresiensis was a separate species that might have descended from Homo erectus of East Asia--which would mean that the last common ancestor of the Hobbits and us lived perhaps two million years ago.
		At the moment I feel that the balance of evidence is in favour of the existence of a distinctive pygmy Homo sapiens population, with the single known skull being of an aberrant individual.
		We know that Homo sapiens and Homo erectus exist (or existed), and that in the case of Homo sapiens pygmy populations exist (and were more common in the past).
	www.corante.com /loom/archives/2005/10/11/hobbits_again.php (7867 words)

	Homo Floresiensis: Proof of Hobbits? - Associated Content
		Homo floresiensis (literally, “man of Flores”), is a species of the genus Homo that is believed to have existed alongside modern humans on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
		The reason why Homo floresiensis is so much smaller than the latter two species is probably due to a form of natural selection called “island dwarfing”, in which smaller descendents are selected for to provide a survival advantage on the island.
		Homo floresiensis also had a relatively small brain, smaller than even that of an average chimpanzee (about 380 cubic centimeters).
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/12189/homo_floresiensis_proof_of_hobbits.html (372 words)

	A lost cousin in a lost world - Editorial - www.theage.com.au
		Named Homo floriensis, these people were tiny, a metre tall, with primitive features and a small brain.
		Obviously, the finding challenges thinking based on the premise that modern humans have long had the planet largely to ourselves (and a family of one is something of an anomaly in the world of species groups).
		That we are the sole survivors of a family tree of nine Homo species is reason to reflect on our good fortune in having survived all the historic catastrophes that befell the other branches of humanity.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/10/28/1098667906170.html?from=storylhs (538 words)

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		Their theory, published in the British weekly scientific journal Nature, was that it was the smallest of the 10 known species of the genus Homo, the hominid that arose out of Africa about 2.5 million years ago.
		Homo erectus had almost no chin (like the hobbits) whereas homo sapiens has an outward jutting chin.
		A homo erectus pygmy would just be a small homo erectus, this thing is small and different enough to be a different species.
	www.atsnn.com /article/176539 (2388 words)

	A Huge Fight over a Little Man
		They called the creature "Homo floriensis," a midget who used his long arms to fashion tools out of stone and grilled meat over the fire -- barbeques that included giant rats, or steaks cut from a slain Stegodon, the ancestor of today's elephant.
		Jacob and his researchers, on the other hand, are comparing the hobbit's skeleton to the measurements of the dwarf-like men who still live in the woods of Flores today.
		Homo floriensis really is just like Tolkien's hobbit -- a "product of somebody's imagination," quips anthropologist Alan Thorne, a co-author of the Jacob study and prominent critic of Morwood and Brown.
	accuca.conectia.es /noticias/2006/a_huge_fight_over_a_little_man.htm (1285 words)

	Wyrdology News: Hobbit Brain "Too Small"
		Argument continues over the recently discovered remains of Homo floriensis - known technically as LB1 and popularly as the "Hobbit".
		The skeletal remains were found in 2003 in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores by a team led by archaeologist Michael Morwood.
		In 2004 the team declared them to be a new species that had overlapped with Homo sapiens and outlasted Neanderthal man.
	www.wyrdology.com /news/2006/05/hobbit-brain-too-small.html (178 words)

	Flores
		In contrast, the existence of a recent but distinct Homo species that evolved in isolation and did not contribute to the genetic make-up of modern humans clearly goes against the multiregional hypothesis.
		This theory postulates that Homo sapiens gradually evolved as a single species from worldwide populations of Homo erectus interbreeding over the past 1.9 million years (see AR 4,1).
		One basic tenet of the "Replacement" theory - that Homo erectus did not lead to modern humans - is directly bolstered by the findings of Brown and Morwood, which suggest that Javan Homo erectus isolated in Flores led instead to the diminutive, small-brained species called Homo floresiensis.
	www.athenapub.com /flores.htm (1630 words)

	FarShores.org World Mysteries Dimensions: 'Hobbit Humans' Discovery Dismissed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The creatures, given the name Homo floriensis, were thought to have lived on the island as recently as 12,000 years ago.
		A seven-strong team of US and British scientists said the grapefruit-sized brains of the hobbits were far too small for them to be dwarf versions of an early human species called Homo erectus, as had been suggested.
		They were of a type consistently associated with modern humans, Homo sapiens, it was claimed.
	farshores.org /wm06hobb.htm (687 words)

	Flores man - Bigfoot Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It is a sub-species of homo sapiens classified under the Austrolomelanesid race.
		Australian scientists last month made world headlines by announcing the discovery of a new twig in mankind's family tree, 'homo floriensis', a one-metre hominid with a grapefruit-sized skull.
		Jacob said his team will aim to prove that the skeleton is from a 25 to 30-year-old omnivorous sub-species of man, not a 30-year-old female from the new species as previously announced.
	www.bigfootforums.com /index.php?showtopic=7978 (1324 words)

	Найден миниатюрный предшественник современного человека - 2004-11-13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Останки этой ранее неизвестной ветви человекообразных названы Homo floriensis в честь острова, где они были найдены.
		Однако, в отличие от Homo erectus, вымершего по меньшей мере 40 тысяч лет назад, а может быть, и раньше, виду Homo floriensis довелось просуществовать намного дольше.
		Миниатюрная версия Homo erectus - это, по словам Стрингера, еще один пример разнообразия когда-то существовавших человеческих видов и рас: «Это показывает, что эволюция человека, даже в недавние времена, была сложным процессом и что существовало много различных видов человека, с которыми природа ставила свой собственный эксперимент».
	128.11.143.113 /russian/archive/2004-11/a-2004-11-13-3-1.cfm (304 words)

	JC-TV Forum
		The say that homo floriensis which was discovered on a remote island by Aussie scientists was a human which lived btwn about 90,000 and 15,000 yrs ago.
		They claim it's a human which had the brain the size of a CHIMP and lived together with homo sapiens.They also say it made quite modern tools too.
		The genus Homo is reserved only for things with a brain size larger than apes, a minimum cranial capacity of about 650 cubic cent.
	www.jc-tv.net /forum/topicDisplay.php?topicID=2810 (638 words)

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