Re: Hobbits not a separate speciies after all

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:02:12 -0500, Pithecanthropus Erectus
<tuibguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As an example of the self-correcting nature of scientific discovery, the
discovery of the "hobbits" on Flores turned out to be not such a
historic find after all. Upon further review, the hobbits are "us"
after all.

It reminds me of the whole hullabaloo over Nebraska Man and Piltdown
man. The popular press jump on a discovery as a significant finding
that shakes the foundation of what we thought to be the lineage of our
ancestors, and then when real scientists are given the chance to finally
test the data, we discover that, while fascinating, the bones reveal
little new after all. And they don't shake our foundations as much as
we thought they would.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1855406,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=18

Btw - when will the editorial staff and National Geographic learn to run
things by peer review before putting their stories out?

Hope this isn't a duplication but the paper the 'Hobbit' news releases
are based on is:

"Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang
Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities"

Its open access:

Abstract
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0605563103v1

Full Text (Pdf)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0605563103v1
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