Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
News and Views
Nature 437, 957-958 (13 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/437957a; Published online 12 October 2005
Open Innovation Challenges
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Assistant Manager-Pharma / CRO-Global Strategic Sourcing
- Varda Biotech
- Mumbai India
Chair, Department of Informatic Medicine and Personalized Health
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Palaeoanthropology: Further fossil finds from Flores
Daniel E. Lieberman1
Abstract
New fossil discoveries on Flores, Indonesia, bolster the evidence that Homo floresiensis was a dwarfed human species that lived at the end of the last ice age. But the species' evolutionary origins remain obscure.
When Gulliver was shipwrecked on the East Indian island of Lilliput in Swift's satirical novel, he was astonished to discover tiny humans. Last year's announcement1, 2 of a newly discovered species of tiny human from the Indonesian island of Flores was far more astonishing, because it wasn't made up.
- Daniel E. Lieberman is at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Email: danlieb@fas.harvard.edu
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.
NEWS AND VIEWS
Palaeoanthropology Homo floresiensis from head to toeNature News and Views (07 May 2009)
Palaeoanthropology Human evolution writ smallNature News and Views (28 Oct 2004)
See all 10 matches for News And ViewsRESEARCH
A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, IndonesiaNature Article (28 Oct 2004)
Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, IndonesiaNature Letters to Editor (13 Oct 2005)
See all 8 matches for Research