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Published online 3 March 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050228-13
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Critics silenced by scans of hobbit skull
Comparisons with pygmies and chimps bolster new species claim.
A computer-generated model of the skull of Homo floresiensis, our diminutive human relative, confirms that the controversial specimens from Indonesia do indeed represent a new species.
The study of the creature's brainpan shows that it was neither a pygmy nor an individual with a malformed skull and brain, as some critics contend.
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