How Homo Floresiensis Was Discovered



Most folks generally care about the fossils themselves and not the background behind how these discoveries are made. But this one is quite the story.

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1 Brown et al. (2004) A New Small-Bodied Hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia

2 Morwood & Oosterzee (2007) A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the ‘Hobbits’ of Flores.

3 https://fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/how-to-find-the-missing-link-according-to-dubois/

4 https://historiek-net.translate.goog/theo-verhoeven-floresmens-ontdekking/106285/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

5 https://fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/following-father-verhoeven-to-flores/

6 Deakin (2012) Marsupial Genome Sequences: Providing Insight into Evolution and Disease

7 Veevers & McElhinney (1976) The Separation of Australia from Other Continents

8 Morwood et al. (1998) Fission-track ages of stone tools and fossils on the east Indonesian island of Flores

9 https://fossilhistory.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/lunch-liang-bua/

10 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/magazine-names-top-10-science-discoveries-of-2004-1.517422

11 Morwood et al. (2004) Archaeology and Age of a New Hominin from Flores in Eastern Indonesia

12 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/07/science.indonesia

13 Van Den Bergh et al. (2016) Homo floresiensis-like Fossils from the Early Middle Pleistocene of Flores

14 Détroit et al. (2019) A New Species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines

Hosted, Written, Shot and Edited by: Riley Harnett
Title Sequence by: James Kean (www.facebook.com/keanjamesart)
Special Thanks to: Paige Madison and Ewen Callaway, whose journalistic work provided much of the research this episode was based on.

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25 thoughts on “How Homo Floresiensis Was Discovered”

  1. Thank you! That is a really great story! I read about it at the time, but you give it some life. Have they ever been able to get DNA from Homo Floresiensis? By the way, what are the white numbers that pop up periodically and out of order in the corner of your screen?

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  2. You make really high quality content and you have a talent for providing relevant context and building an engaging story. You deserve a larger audience and I hope this comment helps.

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  3. Everything Riley does is excellent! He is one of the best verbal presenters I've ever heard. The context is well laid out. The content is always compelling!

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  4. It's pronounced Wool-n-Gong (wool as in what's on a sheep's back). A friend of mine ran the Mass Spec at Wollongong Uni and ran the samples that dated the find.

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