Article: Indonesian 'hobbit' probably is a new species of human.(News)

Scientists believe this skull is from a 30-year-old female who lived ...
KRT Photos;  November 18, 2004 ;     413 words ... ... female who lived about 18,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores. The species is called Homo floresiensis, or Flores Man. The skull is much smaller than a modern human's; a Homo floresiensis brain was probably about the size ...

Article: Indonesia's little people.(homo floresiensis )
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  March 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... tall and lived from 95,000 to 13,000 years ago. They had hairy bodies and long arms ... ancestor dating from 1.8 million to 300,000 years ago. Scientists dubbed the tiny tribe Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man"). Experts surmise that ...

Article: Homo floresiensis and human equality: enduring ...
Monthly Review;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... species of hominid, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian ... the find is that Homo floresiensis apparently lived until at least 18,000 years ago and was, therefore ... The discovery of Homo floresiensis is only particularly ...

Article: Skulduggery; Homo floresiensis.(A palaeontological ...
The Economist (US);  December 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... brouhaha in October. Homo floresiensis, to give the name ... from a mere 13,000 years ago, well after Homo ... In the case of Homo floresiensis, it seems he was ... then the case of Homo floresiensis risks becoming like ...

Article: 'Hobbit' proves to be human; Homo Floresiensis
The Press;  February 1, 2007 ;     590 words ... ... recently as 13,000 years ago. The last Neanderthal ... 26,000 to 28,000 years ago. Naysayers said the ... a new human species, Homo floresiensis. The study, written ... As recently as 200 years ago Flores' inhabitants ...

Article: Inside view of our wee, ancient ...
Science News;  March 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... island more than 20,000 years ago possessed a remarkably ... discovered the diminutive Homo floresiensis fossils (SN: 10 ... more than 200,000 years ago, two skulls of human ... lived nearly 3 million years ago, 10 modern human skulls ...

Article: New finds of human ancestor jumble evolutionary puzzle; Three ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  October 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... human lived 18,000 years ago. But some researchers ... world the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis has found what it sees ... in age from 12,000 years ago to perhaps 95,000 ... million to 4 million years ago. Just as confounding ...