Pygmy people in Indonesia not related to 'hobbit' but evolved …
网页2018年8月2日 · Two lineages of short humans on the Indonesian island of Flores evolved separately tens of thousands of years apart, according to the DNA of pygmy people living today.
Hobbit-Like Human Ancestor Found in Asia - National Geographic
网页2004年10月26日 · Scientists have found skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and giant lizards on a remote island in...
Homo floresiensis - Wikipedia
网页Homo floresiensis (/ f l ɔːr ˈ ɛ z iː ˌ ɛ n. s ɪ s / also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit" after the fictional species) is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago.
A New Genetic Study Suggests Modern Flores Island Pygmies …
网页2018年8月2日 · Geneticist Serena Tucci sat in the small Indonesian village of Rampasasa on Flores Island, the only woman in a room full of male researchers and pygmy villagers. Smoke from clove cigarettes...
Meet Homo floresiensis: The Real-life Hobbits of Indonesia
网页2019年7月26日 · 60,000 years ago, diminutive beings dwelled on the Indonesian island of Flores, alongside komodo dragons, pygmy stegodons and real-life rodents of unusual size. The now-extinct humans — known scientifically as Homo floresiensis, and popularly as the hobbits — stood less than 4 feet tall, with brains one third the size of living people.
Modern Flores Island pygmies show - Princeton University
网页2018年8月2日 · A modern pygmy population living on an Indonesian island near a cave with Homo floresiensis fossils appears to have evolved short stature independently.
The Hunt for the Ancient ’Hobbit’s’ Modern Relatives
网页2018年8月2日 · Uncovered in the gaping Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, the female hominin would have stood just 3.5 feet tall in life. But she wasn't a youngster, and it soon became clear that...
Evolutionary history and adaptation of a human pygmy ... - Science
网页2018年8月3日 · High-coverage genomes provide insights into the history of demographic changes and adaptation in a pygmy population on Flores Island (Indonesia). Although these individuals possess ancestry from both Neanderthals and Denisovans, we found no evidence of admixture with a deeply diverged hominin group.
Indonesia’s pygmies didn’t descend from hobbits, DNA analysis suggests
网页2018年8月2日 · Short people living on the Indonesian island of Flores don’t appear to have DNA from controversial, small-bodied Stone Age hominids called hobbits.
Small height evolved twice on 'Hobbit' island of Flores
网页2018年8月14日 · A new study has shown that small height evolved twice in humans on the Indonesian island of Flores. Scientists decoded the DNA of modern-day "pygmy" people to find out if they might be partly...