Mandibular evidence supports Homo floresiensis as a distinct species

Michael Carrington Westaway; Arthur C Durband; Colin P Groves; Mark Collard

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Mandibular evidence supports Homo floresiensis as a distinct species

Michael Carrington Westaway, Arthur C Durband, Colin P Groves, Mark Collard

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Abstract

Henneberg et al. (1) and Eckhardt et al. (2) present another pathology-based alternative to the hypothesis that the “hobbit” fossils from Liang Bua, Indonesia, represent a distinct hominin species, Homo floresiensis. They contend that the Liang Bua specimens are the remains of small-bodied humans and that the noteworthy features of the most complete specimen, LB1, are a consequence of Down syndrome (DS). Here, we show that the available mandibular evidence does not support these claims.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	E604-605
Number of pages	2
Journal	PNAS
Volume	112
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418997112
Publication status	Published - 17 Feb 2015

Keywords

Homo floresiensis
Liang Bua
LB1
LB6
Down Syndrome

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