Little Species, Big Mystery
the story of homo floresiensis
$37.59
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2022
Summary
Little Species, Big Mystery: Unearthing the Hobbit of Flores
There is only one kind of human on earth today: us. But we are only one of a number of human species - primates of the Hominini tribe - that have existed on our planet across the millennia.
In 2004 the world was astounded by the discovery of Homo floresiensis, a species of human never encountered before, on the island of Flores in the Indonesian archipelago. A very short, thickset being, with long…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522877915 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522877915 |
| Author: | Debbie Argue |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 223mm x 157mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Debbie Argue
Debbie Argue is a specialist in human evolution and an archaeologist. She is an honorary lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University, Canberra. Argue’s academic publications about the 1-metre tall hominin species Homo floresiensis (nicknamed the ‘hobbit’) are widely reported internationally. Argue has studied collections of million-year-old fossil hominin bones in museums in Africa, Europe and Indonesia and has contributed to books and written articles for Cosmos, Anthropology Today and Science Breaker.
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