The Hobbit Trap: How New Species are Invented

by JohnSchofield (Author), Maciej Henneberg (Author), RobertB.Seckhardt (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $140.16

  This lively and provocative book refutes the claim that the Hobbit is a new species, and makes a forceful critique of the cultural and political pressures that lead to the wide acceptance of unsupported theories in science.

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $41.64

  When scientists found the remains of a tiny hominid on an Indonesian island in 2004, they claimed it was a totally new species of human ancestor (homo floresiensis), and called it a Hobbit. Refuting the data on this discovery, the authors raise fundamental questions about scientific method, revealing cultural and political pressures that lead to the wide acceptance of unsupported theories.