A New Human-Mike Morwood (epub) torrent

A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores, Indonesia


By Mike Morwood, Penny Van Oosterzee

Published by Smithsonian Books in 2007

English, 272 pages



In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy, however, but a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person. The more Morwood and his colleagues revealed about the find, the more astonishing it became: standing only three feet tall with brains a little larger than a can of cola, the Hobbits forced anthropologists and everyone to reconsider what it means to be human