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...skeptical anthropologists raised questions about the Flores team's claims. Did the remains found on Flores really belong to a special race of tiny humans? Now, in a paper published in the latest issue of the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), experts from the U.S., Indonesia and Australia have dashed cold water on the hobbit hypothesis. Based on their first-hand examination of the bones, the scientists concluded that Flores man isn't a member of a distinct human species. They claim instead that the specimen is the remains of an unfortunate pygmy with a form...
...shirt and had his wife measure his chest. "We were able to establish to the satisfaction of the audience of 300 people that I was in fact thicker than two short planks," he says. Brown also accused Teuku Jacob, the lead author of the PNAS paper and one of Indonesia's most respected anthropologists, of damaging the fossils while they were in his possession for several months last year; and Morwood claims Jacob used his influence with the Indonesian government to block further excavations at the site. Jacob has denied his rivals' accusations and his colleague Thorne defends him, remarking...
...tree, but none of the opponents had a chance to base their critiques from first-hand examinations of the Flores bones. That changed in a paper published in the current issue of the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). A team of researchers from the U.S., Indonesia and Australia report on their own investigation of the Flores bones and conclude that the so-called hobbit isn't a separate species, but just an unfortunate pygmy with a form of microcephaly, a developmental disorder that shrinks the head and the brain. Or as the archaeologist Alan Thorne...
...said, she-said for the paleoanthropological crowd, you're not far off. The two sides quickly descend from debating the finer points of human fossils to slagging off on each other's ethics. Brown has accused Teuku Jacob - the lead author of the PNAS paper and one of Indonesia's most venerable anthropologists - of removing the fossils from their legal depository and damaging them while attempting to make a copy. Jacob has denied the charges in the past, and Thorne takes umbrage at the accusations. "This is a very senior academic," he says of Jacob. "This is not some...
...Indeed, Asia is minting more millionaires at a faster rate than just about anywhere else. The number of Indians and South Koreans achieving millionairedom last year surged a remarkable 19.3% and 21.3%, respectively, while Indonesia and Hong Kong recorded double-digit growth. The wealth of millonaires in the region is expected to grow 6.7% a year through 2010, according to the report, compared with 3.7% for Europe. Roman Scott, a vice president at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Singapore, says the soaring economies of China and India are behind the boom: "If you open up economies for two billion people...