A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7012, 2004, Pages 1055-1061

  Brown, P ^a   Sutikna, T ^b   Morwood, M J ^a   Soejono, R P ^b   Jatmiko, ^b   Saptomo, E Wayhu ^b   Due, Rokus Awe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b Indonesian Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MORPHOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE RESPONSE; ENDEMIC DWARFING; HOMININ; PLIOCENE;

BIODIVERSITY;

HOMINID; NEW SPECIES; PLEISTOCENE;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTIFACT; ASIA; BODY HEIGHT; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOMINID; HUMAN; INDONESIA; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BONE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; SKULL; TIME; TOOTH;

ASIA; EAST NUSA TENGGARA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES; WORLD;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; HOMO; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO SAPIENS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BONE AND BONES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; SKELETON; SKULL; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH;

EID: 7744243968     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02999     Document Type: Review

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