The fossil Hobbit is not of a new breed of Homonid family.

The research that is most likely the most complete work to end the debate that has lasted more than two years in ancient anthropology will be published in the Anatomical Record edition in November 2006. .

The skull casting model of the Royal London Surgical College is the skull of a modern adult with a small head malformation.This skull is particularly similar to the skull of a 32-year-old woman suffering from microcephaly that will be discussed in this article.In addition, these two castings provided evidence that the LB1 skull was discovered in Flores, the skull that is very similar to the two cast patterns, may also be the skull of an adult with a small head.(Photo: John Weinstein, with permission from the Field Museum)

This new study has proved completely and convincingly that the skull of a woman discovered in Flores, Indonesia in 2003 is not the skull of a new breed of hominid Family as claimed in a The study was published in Nature in 2004 (The Surname is a family of scientific nomenclature Hominidae), including humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and apes. Instead, this skull has a very high likelihood of being the skull of a small modern human being suffering from a genetic disease called small head malformation, a disease characterized by a small head.

Dr. Robert R. Martin, the curator of the Field Biology Department and head of the study, said: "It is no coincidence that being a new hominid family member is supposed to be named the hobbit dwarf, but it is purely imaginary, not based on any evidence that this fossil skull is a symbol of someone but not a modern person. "

The new study is the most interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary assessment published in journals to date regarding issues related to clarifying the hominid family on Flores Island, 18,000 years old. Scientists doing this research are experts in the areas of:

The proportional effects of special body size related to the brain: Dr. Martin and Dr. Ann M. MacLarnon, Faculty of Life and Human Sciences, Roehampton University London.

Genetic aspects and clinical manifestations of small head defects in humans: Dr. William B. Dobyns, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago;

Stone tools: Dr. James Phillips, anthropologist of the University of Illinois, Chicago and the Field Museum.

This is just one of four different groups of scientists who have recently shown that the person with the fossil homonid fossil in Flores is likely to have a modern body with a low body and heterosexual smaller headaches and not a new breed derived from Homo erectus as previously claimed in the original published in the journal Nature.

In particular, an article was recently published just after the first original article concluding that " Hobbit " people have small head defects - a multidirectional research article published and published on September 5, 2006 in the edition of the American Academy of Sciences magazine - written by a co-author, who is also the co-author of the first original article published in Nature. It is scientist RP Soejono of the National Archaeological Center in Kakarta, Indonesia. He also recently wrote that the possibility of women with fossil skulls in Flores is slightly larger than the likelihood of this woman being their new person who homonid suffers from the disease.

Rewriting science

Homonid people
(Photo: occultopedia)

The starting point for a new study published in this journal Anatomical Record is the discovery that the brain of the Flores skull (about 400 cc, equivalent to the size of a grapefruit and less than 1/3 of the size) with the normal size of a modern person's brain) completely so small that it does not fit any of the evolutionary characteristics of the previously known human brain. In addition, the stone tools found along with the area where the skull was discovered are the types of tools that may belong only to the era of our modern humans, Homo sapiens.

The size of the woman's brain in Flores, originally called Homo floresiensis, is known only to the main specimens discovered in the Flores region - the LB1 skeleton. Bone samples are thought to be of eight people but they do not show anything about their brain size. (They have low bodies but that is not the most critical point of research)

This very complete and thorough new study has demonstrated that the LB1 brain is so small that it cannot be derived from H. erectus as claimed by those who discovered this brain.

The truth is, the size of this brain is very close to the average size of the modern human brain with microcephaly.

Small head defects are a term that includes many diseases. There are more than 400 different genes whose mutations to these genes can make the head size smaller

Accordingly, there are many different types of syndromes that can be detected during clinical examination. Many syndromes cause defects in speech (small head status with poor functioning), but some syndromes cause lighter consequences (small head but the function is relatively good) , allowing sick people to live up to adulthood and achieve a level of ability to behave surprisingly under certain circumstances. Small head defects often make people think that the height is seriously reduced but in fact some people with small head defects are still relatively normal height.

Because LB1 bones are clearly adult bones, it is clear that it must be that of modern humans with headaches with relatively good functioning higher than the ability of the small head with poor functioning and early loss.

New research has demonstrated that the skulls and brains of two modern humans with headaches that survive to adulthood are exactly the same as the brains and skulls of the LB1 specimen. This demonstrates the possibility that LB1 is of small head defects.

In addition, it was previously suggested that people with LB1 skulls had unusually large teeth called " megadonty ". However, it turns out that the teeth of LB1 are not particularly large, after taking into account the possible " dwarf " results. They are actually about the same size as the teeth of modern humans with scalding.

According to the scientists of this new study, another issue that has caused much debate is the stone tools discovered with fossils in Flores. Initially, the discoverers claim that these are sophisticated tools. More recently, it has been confirmed that there is a continuation of culture in the tools that these tools were discovered in Mata Menge, Flores and are believed to appear 800,000 years ago. This obviously sounds unreasonable.

Dr. Phillips said: "No one is quite sure that the cultural continuity in" stone making techniques has gone through such a long time (from 18,000 to 800,000 years ago). In order to confirm it, it must "ignore" the importance of the tools that were found along with the LB1 skeleton and made with progressive stone artifact techniques; otherwise it must be periodic stone tools between the Neanderthals (Mid-Stone Age Period) and modern people (Late Stone Age Period) "

Dr. Martin concluded: "There are too many monks exaggerating information and there is not enough reasonable assessment around the detection of skulls in Flores. Science needs to" calm down "and be less" angry ". more while we continue to clarify the discovery of this skull. "