The Brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis

Dean Falk · Charles F. Hildebolt · Michael J. Morwood · Thomas Sutikna · Jatmiko Jatmiko · E. Wayhu Saptomo +2 more

280 citations0/0 files storedScience

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Primate Behavior and Ecology Morphological variations and asymmetry

Abstract

The brain of Homo floresiensis was assessed by comparing a virtual endocast from the type specimen (LB1) with endocasts from great apes, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, a human pygmy, a human microcephalic, specimen number Sts 5 (Australopithecus africanus), and specimen number WT 17000 (Paranthropus aethiopicus). Morphometric, allometric, and shape data indicate that LB1 is not a microcephalic or pygmy. LB1's brain/body size ratio scales like that of an australopithecine, but its endocast shape resembles that of Homo erectus. LB1 has derived frontal and temporal lobes and a lunate sulcus in a derived position, which are consistent with capabilities for higher cognitive processing.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 280 citations exist upstream.

References

1975EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN AND INTELLIGENCE 2004A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia 2001Prefrontal cortex in humans and apes: A comparative study of area 10 2004Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia 1994The Nariokotome Homo erectus skeleton 2004The Human Fossil Record 1983Cerebral Cortices of East African Early Hominids 2000Early hominid brain evolution: a new look at old endocasts

Cited by

2010The Evolution of Language 2015Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa 2005Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia 2016Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia 2011The recursive mind: the origins of human language, thought, and civilization 2007Life history trade-offs explain the evolution of human pygmies

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.