The fellowship of the hobbit: The fauna surrounding Homo floresiensis

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 995-1006

  Meijer, Hanneke J M ^a   van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W ^a   van den Bergh, Gert D ^b   de Vos, John ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dwarfing; Flores; Gigantism; Homo floresiensis; Indonesia; Insular evolution; Unbalanced island faunas

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION;

AZORES; FLORES [AZORES]; PORTUGAL;

HOMO FLORESIENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954057964     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02308.x     Document Type: Article

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