Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
Science Bones prove 'Hobbits' a new species of humans
tabsey
follow
5
9-21-2007 5:47 AM
687 views
tags:
science
tabsey
says:
Nothing to do with Bilbo and the boys and girls of Hobbiton.
Add a Comment
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Related Clips
Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-...
Jupiter
Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levita...
Scientists Find the Trigger of the Norther...
Quiet Explosion: Object Intermediate Betwe...
When Computers Meld With Our Minds
Periodic table display
More clips from
tabsey
Why Are Neocons Attacking Turkey?
Elderly woman stuck in crossing avoids onc...
New Tas devil tumour strands 'harder to va...
Today's Top Clips
High Speed Photography
Do Not Read This !
Hero
Jupiter
'Last Lecture' professor dies at 47
California becomes first state to ban trans fats
My Doggies
Time as an abstract idea –beautiful illustration
How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?
Extinguishing the Fear at the Roots of Anxiety
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
September 21, 2007
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<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/e4510296-730c-4e9d-8d38-e2a0d4103f16/BBD7A8AB-75B1-49A3-82E9-2A117B55CB1A/" 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.smh.com.au/news/science/science-bones-prove-hobbits-a-new-species-of-humans/2007/09/21/1189881743220.html" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/science-bones-prove-hobbits-a-new-species-of-humans/2007/09/21/1189881743220.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smh.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/science-bones-prove-hobbits-a-new-species-of-humans/2007/09/21/1189881743220.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.smh.com.au/img/0CA57408-9E4D-40F2-8A95-83805C8AAA64" alt="An analysis of the wrist bones of the tiny prehistoric human dubbed the “Hobbit” bolsters the theory that it was a new species of human and not some aberration of modern man, a study said." /></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.smh.com.au/news/science/science-bones-prove-hobbits-a-new-species-of-humans/2007/09/21/1189881743220.html"><P>THREE wrist bones from one of the tiny "hobbits" of Indonesia provide the evidence that confirms they are a new species of humans, scientists report.</P></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.smh.com.au/news/science/science-bones-prove-hobbits-a-new-species-of-humans/2007/09/21/1189881743220.html"><P>Since the discovery of the prehistoric humans on the island of Flores was announced three years ago, debate has raged over whether the fossils are a new species, called Homo floresiensis .</P></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.smh.com.au/news/science/science-bones-prove-hobbits-a-new-species-of-humans/2007/09/21/1189881743220.html"><P>Much of the contention has been over the skull of a one-metre tall female with a grapefruit-sized brain known as LB1. Detractors argue the skull came from a modern human with microcephaly, a brain-shrinking disorder.</P></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.smh.com.au/news/science/science-bones-prove-hobbits-a-new-species-of-humans/2007/09/21/1189881743220.html"><P>But a team of scientists using laser imaging to study LB1's wrist bones said the anatomy was very primitive, much more like apes and older human ancestors, than modern humans.</P></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.smh.com.au/news/science/science-bones-prove-hobbits-a-new-species-of-humans/2007/09/21/1189881743220.html"><P>Wrist bones in modern humans are shaped so force is better distributed across the wrist, from the base of the thumb towards the little finger. This is useful for grabbing objects.</P></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;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BBD7A8AB-75B1-49A3-82E9-2A117B55CB1A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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>
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Blog
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK