[Book] Little Species, Big Mystery
via Melbourne University Publishing, 2 August 2022: A new book by Debbie Argue on Homo floresiensis.
Tag: Homo floresiensis
Homo floresienses is the name for a dimunitive hominid species that lived in Flores, Indonesia, some 17,000 years ago.
See also: Mike Morwood, Liang Bua
[Paper] More bones of Leptoptilos robustus from Flores reveal new insights into giant marabou stork paleobiology and biogeography
via Royal Society Open Science, 13 July 2022: A new paper by Meijer et al. describes the bones of giant ...
‘Between Ape and Human’ Review: The Hobbits of Flores Island
via the Wall Street Journal, 30 June 2022: WSJ's review of the recently-released Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on ...
Human ‘hobbit’ ancestor may be hiding in Indonesia, new controversial book claims
via Live Science, 25 April 2022: A new book Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a ...
[Paper] The cranial biomechanics and feeding performance of Homo floresiensis
via Interface Focus, 13 August 2021: A paper looking at the biomechanics of biting of Homo floresiensis. There is a ...
[Paper] Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture
via Nature Ecology and Evolution, 22 March 2021: Another genetics paper that suggests that human populations in Southeast Asia interbred ...
[Paper] Static allometry of a small-bodied omnivore: body size and limb scaling of an island fox and inferences for Homo floresiensis
via Journal of Human Evolution, December 2020: Comparing the limbs of an island fox with its mainland counterparts, this paper ...
[Online Course] Homo Floresiensis Uncovered
Future Learn is offering an online course by the University of Wollonggong on Homo Floresiensis. The four-week course is free, ...
Simulating island dwarfism suggests how Homo floresiensis may have come to be
via Biology Letters, 09 October 2019: A new paper presents simulations of body size evolution based on island dwarfism, and ...
[Paper] Evolutionary history and adaptation of a human pygmy population of Flores Island, Indonesia
A new paper in Science examining the genomes of modern pygmies in the island of Flores found similarities with Neanderthal ...
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