The place of Homo floresiensis in human evolution.
@article{Baab2016ThePO, title={The place of Homo floresiensis in human evolution.}, author={K. Baab}, journal={Journal of anthropological sciences = Rivista di antropologia : JASS}, year={2016}, volume={94}, pages={ 5-18 } }
Two main evolutionary scenarios have been proposed to explain the presence of the small-bodied and small-brained Homo floresiensis species on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in the Late Pleistocene. According to these two scenarios, H. floresiensis was a dwarfed descendent of H. erectus or a late-surviving remnant of a older lineage, perhaps descended from H. habilis. Each scenario has interesting and important implications for hominin biogeography, body size evolution, brain evolution… CONTINUE READING
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