Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton

By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer

In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian
island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned
for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.

Full Text at Yahoo! News
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20041027/ap_on_sc/dwarf_cavewoman

Little lady of Flores forces rethink of human evolution
Rex Dalton

Dwarf hominid lived in Indonesia just 18,000 years ago.

A new human-like species - a dwarfed relative who lived just 18,000 years
ago in the company of pygmy elephants and giant lizards - has been
discovered in Indonesia.

Skeletal remains show that the hominins, nicknamed 'hobbits' by some of
their discoverers, were only one metre tall, had a brain one-third the size
of that of modern humans, and lived on an isolated island long after Homo
sapiens had migrated through the South Pacific region.

"My jaw dropped to my knees," says Peter Brown, one of the lead authors and
a palaeoanthropologist at the University of New England in Armidale,
Australia

Full Text at Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html

'Hobbit' joins human family tree

Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in
Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world

Full Text at BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3948165.stm

The Flores find
Michael Hopkin
Interview: For the archaeologists who unearthed and studied the Flores
skeleton, the discovery is a potentially career-defining event. So how did
they greet the find, and has it changed their ideas about human evolution?
News{at}nature.com asked Peter Brown, who led the analysis, and Mike Morwood,
who directed the dig, for their reflections.

Full Text at Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/041025-4.html

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