"The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at Cambridge and Durham. Their work helps solve the mystery of whether Homo floresiensis — dubbed the Hobbit due to its diminutive stature — was a separate human species or a diseased individual." continue...
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
the big and the small of it
"The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at Cambridge and Durham. Their work helps solve the mystery of whether Homo floresiensis — dubbed the Hobbit due to its diminutive stature — was a separate human species or a diseased individual." continue...
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evolution,
Hobbit,
primate brain
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