Homo floresiensis

"Hobbit"

In the News

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

general information

eight individuals

family tree

cranial capacity

tools

hominid chart

Indonesia HomePage

Homo floresiensis -- Wikipedia
Cf. "Java Man" -- Wikipedia

Lonely Planet . . .
~ Indonesia
~Flores
~ map

Encarta interactive map

World FactBook -- Indonesia

slides

"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 . . .

• Fire Discovery Sheds New Light on 'Hobbit' Demise -- ScienceDaily (29 June 2016)
  
  
• Fossils Suggest That Island Life Shrank Our 'Hobbit' Relatives -- NPR (08 June 2016)
  
  
• Hobbit find shows tiny humans shrank 'rapidly' -- BBC News (08 June 2016)
  
  
• ‘Hobbit’ Relatives Found After Ten-Year Hunt -- Nature (08 June 2016)
  
  
• How the Hobbits Kept Their Tools as They Shrank Into Island Life -- Conversation (08 June 2016)
  
  
• 'Hobbit-like' hominins died out sooner than thought. Were humans to blame? -- Guardian (30 March 2016)
  
  
• Age of 'Hobbit' species revised -- BBC News (30 March 2016)
  
  
  • 'Hobbit' species older than thought - Audio -- BBC News (30 March 2016)
    
    
• Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Human, Study Says -- Discovery News (16 February 2016)
  
  
• Ancient Tools May Shed Light on the Mysterious ‘Hobbit’ -- Science (13 January 2016)
  
  
• Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Neighbor of Flores ‘Hobbit’ -- National Geographic News (13 January 2016)
  
  
• Unique Dental Morphology of Homo floresiensis and Its Evolutionary Implications -- PLoS ONE (18 November 2015)
  
  
• 'The Hobbit' Turns 10: Find That Rewrote Human History -- BBC News (20 October 2014)
  
  
• Hobbits’ Size Not Likely Linked to Growth Disorders -- New York Times (15 July 2013)
  
  
• Homo floresiensis Contextualized: A Geometric Morphometric Comparative Analysis of Fossil and Pathological Human Samples -- PLoS ONE (10 July 2013)
  
  
• Homo Floresiensis: Facts About the 'Hobbit' -- LiveScience (26 April 2013)
  
  
• Study Cacks 'Hobbit' Island Dwarfism Theory -- BBC News (16 April 2013)
  
  
• Tiny Monkey Teeth Suggest Flores Hobbit Was a Dwarf -- New Scientist (06 March 2013)
  
  
• New Fossils Help Bring Hobbit Humans to Life -- Discovery News (10 January 2013)
  
  
• Real-Life Hobbit Face Revealed -- LiveScience (10 December 2012)
  
  
• Hobbit Banned as Title of Lecture on Prehistoric 'Hobbit' -- Guardian (30 October 2012)

"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 Debate Goes Out on Some Limbs -- Science News (19 April 2010)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Hobbit Skull Suggests a Separate Species Science (3/17/08)
  
  
• "Hobbits" Were Separate Species, Skull Suggests -- National Geographic News (23 January 2009)
  
  
• Humanlike 'Hobbit' Fossils Puzzle Scientists -- NPR (18 March 2008)
  
  
• Is the Hobbit's Brain Unfeasibly Small? -- ScienceDaily (27 January 2010)
  
  
• 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' island's deeper history -- BBC News (18 March 2010)
  
  
• 'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human -- Science Daily (21 January 2009)
  
  
• "Hobbit was 'not a diseased human'" -- BBC
  
  
• 'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species, According to Statistical Analysis of Fossils -- ScienceDaily (19 November 2009)
  
  
• Hobbits 'are a separate species' -- BBC News (6 May 2009)
  
  
• How a Hobbit Is Rewriting the History of the Human Race -- Guardian (21 February 2010)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Skull study evidence of 'hobbit' species, claims US anthropologist -- Guardian (8 January 2009)
  
  
• Why the Fossil 'Hobbit' of Flores Isn't so Strange -- Discovery News (23 June 2010)
  
  
• Will 'hobbit' tooth yield ancient DNA? -- MSNBC (10 January 2011)
  
  
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