The Homo floresiensis Controversy
| Main Author: | GROVES, COLIN |
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| Format: | Article info application/pdf eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
, 2009
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| Online Access: |
http://journal.ipb.ac.id/index.php/hayati/article/view/252 http://journal.ipb.ac.id/index.php/hayati/article/view/252/118 |
Daftar Isi:
- A completely new and unexpected quasi human species, Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the Hobbit, was described in 2004 from Liang Bua, a cave in Flores. Like many important new contributions to the human fossil record in the past, many commentators refused to believe that a new species had been discovered, and the type specimen was interpreted as a pathological modern human, usually as a microcephalic dwarf. There is no substance to these claims: close analysis shows that Homo floresiensis is not only a genuinely new species, but that its closest affinities lie with Plio-Pleistocene African species such as Homo habilis, so that it documents an earlier dispersal of hominins from Africa and had hitherto been suspected. Key words: Flores Hobbit, Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, microcephaly