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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 57-59Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.11.009
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The announcement in 2004 that a small-brained hominin, Homo floresiensis, had been discovered on the island of Flores, Indonesia, was hailed as a major scientific breakthrough because it challenged preconceptions about the evolution of our closest relatives. Now, just over two years later, questions raised by the interpretation of the fossil abound. In a series of recent papers, critics have questioned the interpretation of the small brain volume of the fossil as that of a new hominin species, suggesting instead that it was due to microcephaly. The arguments raised by critics and advocates alike prompt a re-examination of ideas about what is possible during the evolution of the brain.
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