The article tell a story about how an
apparent discovery of a "Hobbit" in Indonesia has provoked a
long-running debate among scientist: was the discover in fact a new race, or
she was just one more of our specie, and just had
some brain-shrinking disease?
Some researches made on 2003 have proof, throw the analysis of the
Hobbit's bones, that these ones are quite different from their
supposed "cousin" Neanderthal, nevertheless some other studies
have proof the opposite.
The article say that the discovery takes his
importance on the place which it was found, and the estimate extremely recent
year whom has lived (13.000 years ago).
The bones are one of the principal sources of
"war" into the debate.
Some researchers said that the bones of the
creature are not similar to ours or to the Neanderthals, for example: Dr.
Tocheri said that you don't have to be an expert to notice that the bones are
similar to what we know as chimps and gorillas nowadays, and of course it
couldn't be something similar to modern humans.
Another evidence that support the theory of the two
different species, is the morphology of the wrists, which tend to form very
early in the development of a baby. Chris Stringer said that problems related
to dwarfism tend to form after
birth, so there will be quite impossible that this phenomenon will be a proof
of dwarfism.
In the end of the article
the author speak about all the stake that is in this discussion, that the
scientist that support one or other theory will be completely wrong or
completely right, but even though the author said that all the scientist have
to remember that the purpose on science is to improve knowledge, even if this
knowledge harm us or not.
Hello! I didn't know about the existance of "The hobby". Looks like an interesting thing to study to physical anthropology o:
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