Hobbit's Status as a New Species Gets a Hand Up

摘要

Philadelphia, pennsylvania—The diminutive human who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores 18,000 years ago has been called many things: a pygmy, a diseased Homo sapiens, a hobbit. Now, in a report that was the talk of the Paleoanthropology Society's annual meeting here last week, a postdoctoral researcher claimed that the shapes of the fossil's wrist bones are so primitive that it cannot be H. sapiens. "It is definitely not a modern human.