ANTH 1131 Lecture Notes - Insular Dwarfism, Microcephaly, Hobbit
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Deemed to be male based on his rugged, robust skull, his prominent brow ridges, and his pelvic structure. If he were to be human, would have been younger than 15. 1. 58 m could of reached to heights between 1. 75 to 1. 9 m in height. Brain size at 880cc, when matured might of reached 910cc. Around a metre tall, named the hobbit . Reported to have a brain capacity of 380cc similar to a chimpanzee. Later resulted it was 417cc due to a ct scan. She lived only about 17,000 years ago, long after every hominid other than homo sapiens had become extinct. Her height was calculated using a formula based on pygmy femur-to-total-body-height ratio. Her humerofemoral index (ratio of arm length to leg length) was well outside the range of modern and archaic humans, and was about the same as that of lucy, australopithecus afarensis.
