The Hobbit Trap: How to Create a New Species

by JohnSchofield (Author), PhillipV.Tobias (Foreword), Maciej Henneberg (Author), RobertEckhardt (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $42.71

  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.