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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.
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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.
In 2005 a virtual brain of the one known skull of Homo floresiensis — the three - foot - tall hominid discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores — provided evidence in the ongoing debate about whether the creature represents a separate species or was a human pygmy with a birth defect.
Researchers have little clue about H. floresiensis» evolutionary relationship to other ancient - human relatives, and whether they mated with humans or other species is an open question.
«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.
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.
Rather, our study is yet further evidence that Homo floresiensis was a distinct species with a fascinating, if somewhat nebulous, evolutionary history.»
«If H. floresiensis is a dwarf, one of the controversies has been whether it fits with previous patterns of dwarfism,» says Montgomery.
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 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).
Nevertheless, Stringer said that the discovery and dating of H. naledi «remind us that about 95 percent of the area of Africa is still essentially unexplored for its fossil human record, and its history even within the last 500,000 years may well be as complex as that of Eurasia with its 5 known kinds of humans — Homo erectus, heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, Denisovans, and floresiensis.»
«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.