A new human: the startling discovery and strange story of the "hobbits" of flores, indonesia
Date: 17 Apr 2009, 20:09
A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia Publisher: Collins | ISBN: 0060899085 | edition 2007 | PDF | 272 pages | 1,8 mb In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy, however, but a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person. The more Morwood and his colleagues revealed about the find, the more astonishing it became: standing only three feet tall with brains a little larger than a can of cola, the Hobbits forced anthropologists and everyone to reconsider what it means to be human.
