Pygmy Human Remains Found in South Pacific


	Pygmy Human Remains Found in South Pacific

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3-12-2008 2:36 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fffa09fd-07d9-4bbd-9089-0c0382dcd439/61251E73-301B-4B27-B3BC-EDC5BAADC3E3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews"><DIV id="article-header"><H1 class="article-no-standfirst" id="heading-alone">Pygmy human remains found on rock islands</H1>
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			                        <A name="&lid={articleBody}{Ian Sample}&lpos={articleBody}{1}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/iansample">Ian</A></LI></UL></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Bone fragments from a population of miniature humans have been discovered in the South Pacific</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">The remains of at least 25 adults, who lived between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, were found scattered on the floor of two limestone caves on the tiny rock islands of Palau in Micronesia</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Scientists who analysed the bones believe the humans became a pygmy population after they were isolated on the island with few food resources</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">While the researchers are uncertain how tall the islanders were, they believe a fully grown male would have weighed around 43kg (less than 7st) and a female just 27kg</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">"Palau is unique. There were no large mammals or reptiles, so while it looks like an island paradise, it's a pretty tough place to live and that would all increase the pressure for small body size," said Lee Berger, an anthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, who led the team</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">mushroom-shaped islands</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">hollowed out into giant caves</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/12/fossils?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">100 metres deep</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/61251E73-301B-4B27-B3BC-EDC5BAADC3E3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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