Science Bones prove 'Hobbits' a new species of humans


	Science Bones prove 'Hobbits' a new species of humans

tabsey

9-21-2007 5:47 AM

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tabsey says:

Nothing to do with Bilbo and the boys and girls of Hobbiton.

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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/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;">&nbsp;</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>

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