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	New 'hobbit' human -unique species

hudgal1

9-20-2007 5:31 PM

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hudgal1 says:

Once thought to be a deformed human, with a grapefruit-sized skull and long fingers, the 'hobbit humans' have now been classified as a new species.

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The proof is in the wrist: The "hobbit" human found on the <A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_indonesia.html">Indonesian</A> island of Flores is indeed a unique species, not a diseased modern human, a new bone analysis suggests.
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Since the <A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1027_041027_homo_floresiensis.html">discovery of the hobbit's remains was announced in 2004</A>, researchers have debated whether the find represent a new, small-bodied species called <I>Homo floresiensis</I> or a diseased modern human.
								</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070920-hobbit-wrist.html">Their wrist bones don't look anything like wrist bones that modern humans and Neanderthals have," said Matthew Tocheri, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070920-hobbit-wrist.html">
The wrist bones are more primitive, he said, like those of <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/mountain-gorilla.html">gorillas</A>, <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/chimpanzee.html">chimpanzees</A>, and other early human ancestors. This suggests the hobbit represents a lineage that appeared before the modern wrist evolved.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070920-hobbit-wrist.html"><P>
"This is basically something that has descended from an ancestor that probably lived sometime between one and three million years ago," Tocheri said.
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