Published online in Nature News today, by palaeontologist Chris Stringer.
The Stranger from Flores, by Chris Stringer, in Nature News, 27 October 2004, doi:10.1038/news041025-3.
Nothing particularly new here. Not sure why it got published as "news" today. There's no new discovery, but a short comment by a well known paleontologist, reflecting on the ten year anniversary of the discovery.
There's a longer article by Helen Thompson, in The Smithsonian, which quotes Stringer, but I cannot actually find the quote in the Nature piece. Given that the publication date on the Nature News piece is still several days into the future, I'm wondering if there's a longer "comment" piece coming in Nature; if so I'll link it when I find it. From Helen Thompson's article:
Ten Years On, the Flores “Hobbit” Remains an Evolutionary Puzzle, by Helen Thompson, in "The Smithsonian", Oct 22 2014.
Relating to some previous discussions here, these articles confirm that the notion of "Downs syndrome" or some other pathology in an essentiual modern human is not consistent with available evidence.
The Stranger from Flores, by Chris Stringer, in Nature News, 27 October 2004, doi:10.1038/news041025-3.
Nothing particularly new here. Not sure why it got published as "news" today. There's no new discovery, but a short comment by a well known paleontologist, reflecting on the ten year anniversary of the discovery.
There's a longer article by Helen Thompson, in The Smithsonian, which quotes Stringer, but I cannot actually find the quote in the Nature piece. Given that the publication date on the Nature News piece is still several days into the future, I'm wondering if there's a longer "comment" piece coming in Nature; if so I'll link it when I find it. From Helen Thompson's article:
Ten Years On, the Flores “Hobbit” Remains an Evolutionary Puzzle, by Helen Thompson, in "The Smithsonian", Oct 22 2014.
Relating to some previous discussions here, these articles confirm that the notion of "Downs syndrome" or some other pathology in an essentiual modern human is not consistent with available evidence.
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