Is the new species discovered in 2004 and called Homo floresiensis simply a diseased Homo sapiens? An article entitled Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week reports new opinions about the little hominid discovered in Liang Bua cave on Flores Island in Indonesia and dubbed by the popular press 'The Hobbit'.
An international research team led by Teuku Jacob of the Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia, and including R.P. Soetana of the original reporting team, have investigated the Flores skeletal material again and believe that the bones represent neither a new species nor a devolved Homo erectus, but rather a deformed Homo sapiens.
An international research team led by Teuku Jacob of the Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia, and including R.P. Soetana of the original reporting team, have investigated the Flores skeletal material again and believe that the bones represent neither a new species nor a devolved Homo erectus, but rather a deformed Homo sapiens.
- Is Flores Man a Deformed Homo Sapiens?, read more about the article and find more sources
- Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may not yet quite be published but should be in a day or two
- Little Lady of Flores an introduction to the discovery
- Further Fossil Finds
- More on Flores Man
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