Sentences with phrase «floresiensis hobbits»

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

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Brand New New fossils bringing «Hobbit humans» to life New bones attributed to Ho - mo floresiensis — aka the «Hobbit Human» — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members of this species looked like, how they behaved and their origins.

(Meyer said they were working on reassessing old samples but would not specify which specimens they were studying — the mysterious «hobbit» H. floresiensis would be a worthy candidate.)

After researchers discovered H. floresiensis, which they nicknamed the hobbit, in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, they concluded that its skeletal remains were as young as 11,000 years old.

They found that the youngest age for Homo floresiensis, dubbed the «Hobbit», is around 50,000 years ago not between 13,000 and 11,000 years as initially claimed.

Most paleoanthropologists believe that the hobbit belongs to a new species of human, Homo floresiensis.

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

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.

By 35,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have had the planet to itself, with the possible exception of an isolated population of H. floresiensis — the «hobbit» people of Southeast Asia — and another newly discovered hominid species in China.

Better known as the hobbit, H. floresiensis was a diminutive hominid that lived roughly 500 kilometers south of Sulawesi on the island of Flores at around the same time the Sulawesi tools were made.

The work complicates the human story once again, much as the discovery of the controversial H. floresiensis — a.k.a. the hobbit — has upset earlier and simpler views of early human migrations around the globe.

The recent dates suggest that like the 60,000 - to 100,000 - year - old fossils of tiny H. floresiensis (the «Hobbit») in Indonesia, H. naledi was a «twig off the mainstream of Homo — some little relic of a relatively archaic population,» Kimbel says.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Whether H. floresiensis is correctly attributed to the genus Homo; if actually a member of an earlier member of the hominin lineage, such as H. erectus; could Hobbit belong to A. afarensis and if so how did Honnit's ancestors get to Indonesia; these are all questions difficult to answer on the evidence currently available.

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

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

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

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

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