Hobbit: "The Wrist ends the debate!"

By Matthew W. Tocheri

20 Sep, 2007 08:22 pm

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A new study published today in Science attempts to resolve the Hobbit argument. The report states that the so called Hobbit fossils found in Flores, Indonesia represent a new species rather than a diminutive human. Matthew Tocheri, lead author of the study, answers Scitizen's questions.

What is your study based upon?

What does that mean in terms of hominin evolution?

Do you think that your findings will put an end to the debate that has been going on for years?

Matthew W. Tocheri is a researcher at Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Interview by Clementine Fullias

Reference:

Tocheri M. W., et al, It's in the Wrist: The Primitive Wrist of Homo floresiensis and Its Implications for Hominin Evolution, Science, September 21

Key words :

evolution,

fossils

hominin evolution

homo floresiensis

hobbit

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Comment by Petr Jandacek

21 Sep, 2007 04:27 pm

Dr. Matthew Tocheri's "backhanded" comments about the Homo floresiensis wristbones, along with the size and anatomy of the Hobbit-Hominid face, body, dentition and cranium -- suggest that -- If the discovery were made in Africa and dated to betwee 13,000 and 11,000 years ago it would be considered a
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