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...Yard, coming from scattered puddles of freshmen evidently not as tired as I was. Obsessively, I reproached myself for not being there, eagerly collecting more, newer acquaintances. The crucial piece of advice for such a tumultuous time, one I cannot take credit for, is to engrave into your skull, and schedule, the impossibility of attending every presentation, speech, tour, and event...
...controversy arises from differing interpretations of a key piece of evidence: a single, almost complete female skull unearthed in the Flores cave. According to the PNAS researchers, the effects of microcephaly are evident in the asymmetric shape of the tiny skull. They claim, too, that the features of the skull cited as evidence that it belonged to a separate species?such as a nearly absent chin?can be found in modern Flores pygmies. The fact that pygmies can still be found living just down the road from the original excavation site helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental...
...University of New England in Australia?aren't backing down. In an e-mail, Brown told TIME that the PNAS paper "provides absolutely no evidence that the unique combination of features found in Homo floresiensis are found in any modern human." He argues that the asymmetry in the skull was due not to disease but to the skeleton being buried for thousands of years in 30 feet of sediment, which deformed the fossil. (Thorne insists the deformity must have happened before death.) Henry Gee, a senior editor at Nature who was responsible for overseeing publication of the original Flores article...
...PNAS team closely examined the one almost complete skull unearthed at Flores and say they found no evidence that it was belonged to anyone but a modern human. The skull was shaped asymmetrically, which the researchers argued was due to the effects of microcephaly. They also say that many of the features of the jaw and teeth cited as evidence that it belonged to a separate species-such as the lack of a chin-could be seen among modern Flores pygmies. It's that last part - the fact that a population of pygmies can still be found living just...
...that the PNAS paper "provides absolutely no evidence that the unique combination of features found in Homo floresiensis are found in any modern human." Morwood points out that supporting papers have previously been published in elite journals like Science and Nature, while Brown argues that the asymmetry in the skull was due to the fact that the original skeleton was buried in 30 ft. of sediment, which deformed the fossil. (Thorne insists the deformity must have happened before death). Colin Groves, an Australian biological anthropologist who is an author on an upcoming paper in the Journal of Human Evolution that...