85: Hobbit Humans: Small Head, Big Feet.

PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; FOSSIL hominids; JUNGERS, William; ECKHARDT, Robert B.; GORDON, Adam

This article discusses the discovery of a fossil of Homo floresiensis and its identification as a new species. The presentation of evidence that this was a new species by the anthropologist Adam Gordon and the paleoanthropologist William Jungers is described. Genetic similarities between H. floresiensis and humans that were identified by Robert B. Eckhardt are also considered.