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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 140, Issue 1, Pages 177-185Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21066
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deformational plagiocepbaly; LB1; Liang Bua; Flores
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- National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
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If the holotype of Homo floresiensis, LB1, suffered from a severe developmental pathology, this could undermine its status as the holotype of a new species. One of the proposed pathological indicators that still remains untested is asymmetric distortion in the skull of LB1 (Jacob et al.: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 (2006) 13421-13426). Here, we present evidence that LB1 exhibits antemortem craniofacial deformities that are consistent with posterior deformational (positional) plagiocephaly. This is a relatively common condition in modern people with no serious associated health problems and does not represent a severe developmental abnormality in LB1. Am J Phys Anthropol 140:177-185, 2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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