A group of scientists has discovered the fossilized remains of a hominid that could be the ancestor of Homo floresiensis, the so-called hobbit of the Indonesian island of Flores, reveal two studies published in Nature.
“This discovery has important implications for understanding the spread and evolution of early humans in the region and eliminates finally the doubts of those who believe that Homo floresiensis was simply a diseased modern human (Homo sapiens), “says a Gert statement van den Bergh , University of Wollongong. This gives way to confirm that this is a different and dwarf spice.
For some anthropologists, Man of Flores would be a descendant of small Homo habilis or Australopithecus arrived from Africa. According to others, would be a Homo erectus that was shrinking to fit the limited resources (See here: “origin of the hobbit ‘). ” What we found was a big surprise, “said Adam Brumm University of Wollongong. “And gives to think that Homo floresiensis is a very ancient species, which acquired very early its small size, perhaps shortly after arriving on the island, makes about one million years. “
the group of scientists found in 2014 the remains of at least three hominids small size of a length of about 700,000 million years in an area called Mata Menge, about 70 kilometers from the cave Liang Bua, where the hobbit was discovered in 2003.
the fossils of Homo floresiensis described a hominid barely a meter tall, 30 kilos of weight and a brain the size of a grapefruit, which experts they have calculated that disappeared about 50,000 years ago. The new remains, a right lower jaw and six teeth of an adult and two children, are about half a million older than the Liang Bua years.
“The morphology fossil teeth also suggests that such humans are descendants dwarves of early Homo erectus that, for some reason, remained isolated on the island of Flores, “said Yousuke Kaifu, the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo.
TIME
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