Sentences with phrase «floresiensis small»
The paleoanthropological community does agree, broadly, the H. floresiensis small brain size is not due to a pathological condition, as was previously suggested by some.»
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The jawbone is at least 20 percent smaller than those from Liang Bua, suggesting H. floresiensis may have evolved from an even smaller hominin.
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 2004, the find was published in Nature: «a new small - bodied hominin» named Homo floresiensis.
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).
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 reconstructed skull of Homo floresiensis once belonged to a small species of ancient humans.
«This study is purely based on differences in morphological characters between fossil specimens, with each character weighted equally, and with disregard of any functional aspects of every character,» says Dr. Gerrit van den Bergh of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, one of the authors of the 2016 study published in Nature that supports the idea that H. floresiensis descended from H. erectus and was made small by insular dwarfism.
The problem is that although there is evidence of stone tools on Flores dated to 840,000 years ago, there is no associated skeletal material, and all examples of H. floresiensis are already small - bodied.