Thursday, March 03, 2005
But did they eat "second breakfast"?
'Dwarf Species Might Have Been Human Ancestor, Scientists Say' - headline, The New York Times.
One of the extinct little people of the Indonesian island of Flores, who were accorded a separate status in the early human family after their discovery was announced last October, has undergone its first intelligence test.
In a study of the shape and contours of its tiny braincase, the 18,000-year-old adult female, who was barely three feet tall, was found to have anatomical attributes suggesting a capability for higher thinking processes, a significant memory bank and ability to plan ahead. Not bad for a species with a brain one-third the size of a contemporary human's.
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