The brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5719, 2005, Pages 242-245

  Falk, Dean ^a   Hildebolt, Charles ^b   Smith, Kirk ^b   Morwood, M J ^c   Sutikna, Thomas ^d   Brown, Peter ^c   Jatmiko, ^d   Saptomo, E Wayhu ^d   Brunsden, Barry ^b   Prior, Fred ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^d Indonesian Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ALLOMETRIC; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

BRAIN;

CRANIUM; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRY;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HOMINID; HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HUMAN; MICROCEPHALY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; PAN TROGLODYTES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

HOMO FLORESIENSIS;

EID: 20244366987     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109727     Document Type: Article

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30. We thank the National Geographic Society (grant 7760-04) and D. Hamlin for helping to bring this research to fruition. X. Wu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, provided the measurements for H. sapiens in Table 1; K. Mowbray of the American Museum of Natural History provided the cast of the microcephalic skull and pygmy skull; and B. Latimer and L. Jellema of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History loaned additional skeletal material. We appreciate T. Gebke and C. Tinscher's technical assistance in CT scanning, B. Macy's production of physical endocasts, B. Worthington's illustrations of LB1's endocast (Fig. 3), and E. Chambless's help with manuscript preparation.