Sentences with phrase «floresiensis seems»

Homo floresiensis seems to have disappeared soon after our species reached Flores, suggesting it was us who drove them to extinction, according to one of the researchers.

«In fact, Homo floresiensis seems to have disappeared soon after our species reached Flores, suggesting it was us who drove them to extinction,» says Associate Professor Maxime Aubert, a geochronologist and archaeologist at RCHE, who with RCHE's Director Professor Rainer measured the amount of uranium and thorium inside Homo floresiensis fossils to test their age.

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

Not exact matches

For now, the Mata Menge fossils seem to expand the timeframe of H. floresiensis and confirm it was a distinct species.

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.