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Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC 9780060899080 A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the
Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC 9780060899080 A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the

A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia

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  • Vendor: Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC
  • Product Type: Book
  • Barcode: 9780060899080
  • Condition: New
  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: BOOK
  • Binding: hardcover
  • Author: Morwood, Mike, van Oosterzee, Penny
  • Publisher: Smithsonian
  • Published: May 7, 2007
  • ISBN 13: 9780060899080
  • SKU: M6407
DESCRIPTION

In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy, however, but a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person. The more Morwood and his colleagues revealed about the find, the more astonishing it became: standing only three feet tall with brains a little larger than a can of cola, the Hobbits forced anthropologists and everyone to reconsider what it means to be human.

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