Sentences with phrase «homo floresiensis»

This is the home to the extinct Homo floresiensis nicknamed the «Flores man».

A new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution finds that Homo floresiensis, a teensy little hominin species first discovered only a little more than a decade ago in a cave on the indonesian island of Flores, probably doesn't fit into the human family tree the way we thought.

Perhaps no recent example of radical development toward the smallish has been as documented as the case of Homo floresiensis.

Homo floresiensis, popularly known as a hobbit, is an extinct, miniature human species that might be much, much older than previously thought.

(10/07/2013) A recent 3D - comparative analysis confirms the status of Homo floresiensis as a fossil human species....

«It's possible that Homo floresiensis evolved in Africa and migrated, or the common ancestor moved from Africa then evolved into Homo floresiensis somewhere,» study leader Debbie Argue said in a statement from Australian National University.

«If this were the case, Homo floresiensis would have evolved before the earliest Homo habilis, which would make it very archaic indeed.»

Scientists are still debating whether Homo floresiensis was its own species, or merely a group of diseased modern humans.

A reconstructed skull of Homo floresiensis once belonged to a small species of ancient humans.

Homo floresiensis, aka the Hobbit Human that lived until relatively recently, came to his mind.

A detailed comparison of bones and teeth from Homo floresiensis rules out a close link to human ancestors.

The discovery of her species, Homo floresiensis, brought into question the belief that Homo sapiens was the only form of mankind for the past 30,000 years.

In addition, the so - called «hobbits,» a short species known to scientists as Homo floresiensis, also may have evolved from other isolated humanlike species.

«It's possible that Homo floresiensis evolved in Africa and migrated, or the common ancestor moved from Africa then evolved into Homo floresiensis somewhere,» Argue said.

«We looked at whether Homo floresiensis could be descended from Homo erectus,» Argue said.

The findings may finally resolve a debate that has raged in anthropological circles ever since the three - and - a-half-feet tall Homo floresiensis was discovered in 2003 on the island of Flores, where they are thought to have hunted small elephants and large rodents as recently as 54,000 years ago.

A study in the Journal of Human Evolution says the bones of Homo floresiensis can be connected to one of the earliest known human species.

Homo floresiensis, also known as «Hobbit Humans,» lived on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

Homo floresiensis fossils revealed the tiny hominid didn't evolve from Homo erectus, as previously believed.

Homo floresiensis or Flores Man was discovered in 2003.

Scientists clash, too, on the Homo floresiensis, nicknamed «hobbit.»

The discovery of 17,000 - year - old Homo floresiensis — the «hobbit» — dispelled that notion, but many anthropologists look on H. floresiensis as an anomaly, isolated from the human — Neanderthal hegemony on the mainland.

The 2004 discovery of Homo floresiensis (SN: 10/30/04, p. 275: Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise) suggested that this apparently close relative of Homo sapiens may have coexisted with modern humans as recently as 12,000 years ago (see «Little Ancestor, Big Debate,» in this week's issue).

They had amassed more data than ever before to compare Homo floresiensis with other species, and they'd used analyses to find the best fit for the fossils on the hominin family tree.

But Homo floresiensis raises the tantalising possibility of an earlier expansion of hominins — who were probably not - quite - Homo — out of Africa.

The recently discovered Homo floresiensis (a.k.a. «the hobbit») might also yield to this method of DNA analysis.

In your interview with Richard Leakey, you report that he steps aside from the debate on whether Homo floresiensis — the «hobbit» — represents a distinct species.

Other experts were not so sure; the anatomy of Homo floresiensis seemed too primitive.

In 2004, the find was published in Nature: «a new small - bodied hominin» named Homo floresiensis.

Scientists are planning an attempt to extract DNA from the «hobbit» Homo floresiensis, the 1 - meter - tall extinct distant relative of modern humans that was unearthed in Indonesia, following a study that suggests problems in standard sampling methods in ancient - DNA research could have thwarted previous efforts.

Falk was a key member of the team that studied the brain impression of Homo floresiensis, or the «Hobbit», discovered in Indonesia in 2003.

Nicknamed hobbit people, Homo floresiensis «caught the field off guard — they were the black swan of paleoanthropology,» says Bill Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York.

Because people must have traveled across the islands of Southeast Asia to get to Australia, the date suggests humans were moving through Indonesia at the same time as Homo floresiensis, the tiny extinct human nicknamed «the hobbit,» was living on the island of Flores; the last date for that species is 60,000 years ago, although so far there's no evidence of encounters between humans and hobbits.

But that proposed scenario has some parallels to Indonesia's Homo floresiensis, better known as the hobbit.

The findings also lend support to claims that the small brain of the human ancestor Homo floresiensis, whose 18,000 - year - old skull was discovered on a remote Indonesian island in 2003, isn't as remarkable as it might seem.

In spite of their pint - sized brains, Homo floresiensis was able to make fire and use stone tools to kill and butcher large animals.

A new cave has been found at the site where Homo floresiensis hobbits were discovered.

We may have finally found the ancestors of the mysterious miniature Homo floresiensis, aka the hobbit.

Rather, our study is yet further evidence that Homo floresiensis was a distinct species with a fascinating, if somewhat nebulous, evolutionary history.»

Australian paleoanthropologist Peter Brown insists the skeleton is a new type of human who should be called Homo floresiensis.

The study, titled «A Critical Evaluation of the Down Syndrome Diagnosis for LB1, Type Specimen of Homo floresiensis,» is published in the June 8, 2016 edition of PLOS ONE.

First described in 2004 from fossils discovered at Liang Bua, a cave on the island of Flores, the meter - tall Homo floresiensis was instantly nicknamed after J.R.R. Tolkien's diminutive characters.

They dubbed the remains LB1 and controversially identified it as a new species, Homo floresiensis, in 2004.

Analysis of a wealth of new data contradicts an earlier claim that LB1, an ~ 80,000 year old fossil skeleton from the Indonesian island of Flores, had Down syndrome, and further confirms its status as a fossil human species, Homo floresiensis.

Dubbed Homo floresiensis, the hominid appears to have walked upright and used tools and fire.

Homo floresiensis, the enigmatic diminutive hominin from Flores, Indonesia, retains primitive wrist bones, implying that it is not closely related to modern humans.

Called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the «hobbit» people, this species found in Indonesia rewrites the scientific story of how humans migrated out of Africa and came to populate the whole world.

Catherine Geslain - Lanéelle unexpectedly announced her resignation from the European Food Safety Authority; and Michael Morwood, co-discoverer of Homo floresiensis, died on 23 July after battling cancer.

If so, homo floresiensis crushes our cherished notions about the key human trait of bigness, both in body and in brain.

That is the message from a strange Indonesian fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of the human family: Homo floresiensis, the hobbit people.