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Flores Man: A Bibliography

Scientific Publications about the Hobbit

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Homo floresiensis (Liang Bua Cave, Indonesia) and a modern human skull

Homo floresiensis (Liang Bua Cave, Indonesia) and a modern human skull

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Nature Special: Flores Man most are for-pay articles, but there is an ongoing news blog-like thing associated with this page.

Single Science Writer Articles

Balter, Michael. 2005 Small but Smart? Flores Hominid Shows Signs of Advanced Brain. Science 307 (5714):1386-1389

Balter, Michael. 2004. Skeptics Question Whether Flores Hominid Is a New Species Science 306(5699)1116

Culotta, Elizabeth. 2007. The Fellowship of the Hobbit. Science 317(5839):740-742

Dalton, Rex 2004 Little lady of Flores forces rethink of human evolution. Nature 431:1029. Free to read online

Hirst, K. Kris 2004-2007 My collection of Flores articles.

Single Academic Articles

Argue, Debbie, Denise Donlon, Colin Groves, and Richard Wright. 2007. Homo floresiensis: Microcephalic, pygmoid, Australopithecus, or Homo? Journal of Human Evolution 51(4):360-374.

Brown, Peter, T. Sutikna, M. J. Morwood, R. P. Soejono, Jatmiko, E. Wayhu Saptomo & Rokus Awe Due 2004 A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 431:1056–1061

Conroy, G.C. and R.J. Smith. 2007. The size of scalable brain components in the human evolutionary lineage: With a comment on the paradox of Homo floresiensis. HOMO-Journal of Comparative Human Biology 58(1):1-12.

Falk, Dean, Charles Hildebolt, Kirk Smith, M. J. Morwood, Thomas Sutikna, J. Jatmiko, E. Wayhu Saptomo, Herwig Imhof, Horst Seidler, and Fred Prior. 2007. Brain Imaging Suggests Homo Floresiensis is Not Malformed Human.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 10.1073/pnas.0609185104.

Jacob, T., E. Indriati, R. P. Soejono, K. Hsü, D. W. Frayer, R. B. Eckhardt, A. J. Kuperavage, A. Thorne, and M. Henneberg. 2006. Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(36):13421-13426.

Lahr, Marti Mirazon and Robert Foley 2004 Human evolution writ small. Nature 431:1043–1044.

Lucas, Peter W. 2006. Facial dwarfing and dental crowding in relation to diet. International Congress Series 1296: 74-82.

Martin, Robert D., Ann M. MacLarnon, James L. Phillips, William B. Dobyns. 2007. Flores hominid: New species or microcephalic dwarf? The Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology 288A(11):1123-1145.

Moore, Mark W. and Adam Brumm. 2007. Stone artifacts and hominins in island Southeast Asia: New insights from Flores, eastern Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution 52(1):85-102

Morwood, Michael J. et el. 2004 Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia. Nature 431:1087–1091

Morwood, Michael J., et al. 2005 Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 437(13 October 2005):1012-1017.

Niven,Jeremy E. 2007. Brains, islands, and evolution: Breaking all the rules. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22(2): 57-59

Tocheri, Matthew W., et al. 2007 The Primitive Wrist of Homo floresiensis and Its Implications for Hominin Evolution. Science 317(5845):1743-1745.

Westaway, K.E., M.J. Morwood, R.G. Roberts, J.-x. Zhao, T. Sutikna, E.W. Saptomo and W.J. Rink. 2007. Establishing the time of initial human occupation of Liang Bua, western Flores, Indonesia. Quatemary Geochronology 2(1-4):337-343.

Westaway, Kira E. 2006. Reconstructing the Quaternary landscape evolution and climate history of western Flores: an environmental and chronological context for an archaeological site. PhD thesis, University of Wollongong.

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