Sentences with phrase «hobbit skulls»

Biological anthropologist Dean Falk did not expect to see anything like that when she got to work on models of hobbit skulls at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

«I think [Obendorf's team] is dead wrong on the size of the pituitary fossa,» he says, given his own inspection of a cast of the inside of the hobbit skull.

The researchers also noted that the pituitary fossa, a notch in the skull that houses the pituitary gland, was enlarged both in the single hobbit skull and in cretins.

More hobbit fossils are needed to settle the matter; (2) Ralph Holloway (Columbia University) states that although the hobbit skull may not have microcephalic morphology (shape), it does seem to indicate other brain abnormalities; (3) another researcher states that the size sample in the study was too small.

Falk and her team claim that the hobbit skull indicates that its brain does not resemble the microcephalics, but instead resembles normal human brains.

It should have had at least thirty specimens for comparison, including some aboriginal peoples (pigmies) living in the region where the hobbit was found; and (4) since the one hobbit skull available for study was an adult, the study should not have had five microcephalic children among the nine microcephalics used for comparison (Science, 2 February 2007, p. 583).

Not exact matches

To create a virtual version of the hobbit brain, Falk's colleague, engineer Kirk Smith, of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis, used three - dimensional CAT scans that Morwood's team had taken of its fossilized skull and braincase.

A new study claims that the hobbit (lower photo) shares traits with modern humans afflicted with cretinism (top skull).

The hobbit stood about 1 metre tall and the single skull found so far has a braincase no larger than a chimpanzee's.

A third option, championed by a small but vocal group of researchers, is that the hobbit is just a small - bodied member of our own species, with the single small skull being the result of disease.

Robert Martin at the Field Museum in Chicago thinks we need to uncover a second tiny skull before he can accept that the hobbit is a distinct species.

The hobbit's skull is similar to that of a taller hominin, Homo erectus.

The skull and jaw of this female «hobbit» was found in Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia, in 2003.

The study was based upon casts and computer reconstructions of the one hobbit fossil skull available (brains do not fossilize) compared to nine microcephalic brains and ten normal human brains.