Editor's Summary
26 April 2007
Island race
The Discovery of the Hobbit, by Mike Morwood and Penny Van Oosterzee, tells the story of one of the most controversial hominid fossil finds of recent times. Morwood (a co-author on the 'hobbit' paper published in Nature) and science writer Van Oosterzee describe the hostile welcome that Homo floresiensis faced, notably the claims that it was a pathological specimen of modern humans. Henry Gee, the Nature editor responsible for accepting the paper, reviews the book and adds a little more background to the story.
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doi:10.1038/446979a