Re: Articles: New species of Human Discovered

From: Michael Ragland (ragland666_at_webtv.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:49:29 +0000 (UTC)

FASCINATING!

Michael Ragland

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@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
Posted by
Robert Karl Stonjek

"Tiny green men might have been a better experiment."

Stephen Hawking
(paraphrasing from a "Universe in a Nutshell".

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