Hobbit Human

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Hobbit' stirs scientific clash: "'Hobbit' stirs scientific clash
By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter

Comparison between the Hobbit and a modern human skull (Falk/Science)
The Hobbit's (L) skull is very small
A US-British team of scientists has challenged the idea that the tiny skeleton from Indonesia dubbed 'the Hobbit' is a new human species.

Writing in Science magazine, the team presents an alternative theory that the remains could be those of a modern human with a brain disorder.

Their arguments appear in a technical critique of previous research into the Hobbit brain also published in Science.

But the authors of that earlier paper have vigorously defended their work.

The skeletal remains were discovered by an Australian-Indonesian research team in the cave of Liang Bua on the island of Flores in 2003."

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