Article: Prehistoric Hobbits' remains do not show signs of growth disorders

Article: Small wonders: tiny islanders elevate 'hobbit' debate.(This Week)
Science News;  March 15, 2008 ;     597 words ......chimpanzee-sized. Precise brain-size estimates for the Palau...resulted from a genetic growth disorder, such as microcephaly...short stature and reduced brain size. Obendorf's hypothesis...floresiensis with a growth disorder.

Article: Our brains continue to grow and evolve, say scientists.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  September 9, 2005 ;     513 words ......Chicago have identified two genes linked to brain size which are rapidly evolving in humans...characteristic of human evolution - the growth of brain size and complexity - is likely still going...genetic variant in a gene that controls brain size. This variant is clearly favoured ...

Article: The pattern of evolution in Pleistocene human brain size
Paleobiology;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the hypothesis of a single process of brain size change, but they are incompatible with...Hawks et al. 2000; Relethford 2000). The brain size of the new hominid clade, however, is...Following this, throughout the Pleistocene, brain size increases further to that seen in modern...

Article: Evolution's mystery woman: disagreements rage about tiny ancient islanders.
Science News;  November 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ......resulted from a still-enigmatic, genetic growth disorder, say anthropologist Teuku Jacob of...her fellow Flores folk inherited the growth disorder, the scientists suggest. Still, physically...suffered from an as-yet unspecified growth disorder that included microcephaly, a genetic...

Article: University of Cambridge reports research in evolution.
Science Letter;  January 20, 2009 ;     327 words ...Brain size is under many opposing selection pressures...Two hypotheses explaining reductions in brain size are tested, using phylogenetically controlled...trait changes correlating with changes in brain size. Brain size changed before brood parasitism...

Article: Data on dwarfism detailed by E.M. Weston and co-authors.
Health & Medicine Week;  June 8, 2009 ;     363 words ......usually associated with only moderate brain size reduction, because the brain and sensory...predicted to have a greater relative brain size than 'phyletic giants'(1,3). However...equivalent body mass. These results show that brain size reduction is much greater than predicted...

Article: Data on life sciences described by researchers at University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology.(Report)
Life Science Weekly;  January 27, 2009 ;     475 words ...New research, 'Brain size at birth throughout human evolution: a new method for estimating neonatal brain size in hominins,' is the subject of a report. An increase in brain size is a hallmark of human evolution. Questions regarding the evolution...

Article: New ethology study findings have been reported by J.G. Burns and colleagues.
Science Letter;  February 24, 2009 ;     296 words ......wild counterparts. These differences in brain size have been attributed to genetic changes...though, is whether these differences in brain size are due to plastic responses to the environment...changes. We observed a large reduction in brain size in first generation, lab-reared ...

Article: Humans and dolphins: if brain size is a measure, we're not that different.
M2 Presswire;  October 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ......2004-US NSF: Humans and dolphins: if brain size is a measure, we're not that different...Va. - Scientists have determined how brain size changed in dolphins and their relatives...Anatomical Record, show that, in terms of brain size, humans and dolphins aren't that different...

Article: Correction.(Correction notice)
Science News;  April 5, 2008 ;     73 words ......the Palau discoveries support his argument that the Flores skeleton comes from a pygmy of H. floresiensis with a growth disorder is incorrect. Eckhardt's view is that the Flores skeleton comes from a pygmy of H. sapiens with a growth disorder.

Article: FDA Approves Eli Lilly Growth Drug.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 26, 2003 ;     399 words ......Judy Kay Moore. These children have a growth disorder, and now they can be treated, she...cover the cost of Humatrope when a growth disorder can't be proven. Humatrope has been...said it can be difficult to detect a growth disorder in children. For those, especially...

Article: 'Hobbit' might have been a modern human with a growth disorder
The Hindustan Times;  April 21, 2008 ;     357 words ......000-year-old new species, but was just a modern human with a growth disorder. The 'hobbits' have been named after the diminutive characters...a new species, the hobbit was just a modern human with a growth disorder that left it with a brain the size of a grapefruit, among...

Article: The World: Dwarf's US trip
Birmingham Mail;  August 22, 2007 ;     43 words ...THE parents of a little boy with a very rare growth disorder are hoping a trip to the United States will find him friends with the same condition.Two-year-old Liam Smyth, from Sneinton in Nottinghamshire, has a type of dwarfism that could stunt his growth to just a metre tall.

Article: The World: Dwarf's US trip.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England);  August 22, 2007 ;     43 words ...THE parents of a little boy with a very rare growth disorder are hoping a trip to the United States will find him friends with the same condition.Two-year-old Liam Smyth, from Sneinton in Nottinghamshire, has a type of dwarfism that could stunt his growth to just a metre tall.