Hombre de Flores

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

 

Flores Man

 

 

Bermúdez de Castro, José María. "Los enanos de Flores." Reflexiones de un primate 3 July 2014.*

         http://reflexiones-de-un-primate.blogs.quo.es/2014/07/03/los-enanos-de-flores/

         2014

_____. "Homo floresiensis, en la encrucijada." Reflexiones de un primate 23 March 2016.*

         http://reflexiones-de-un-primate.blogs.quo.es/2016/03/23/homo-floresiensis-en-la-encrucijada/

         2016

_____. "Homo floresiensis y nuestra ilustre genealogía." Reflexiones de un primate 3 May 2016.*

         http://reflexiones-de-un-primate.blogs.quo.es/2016/05/03/homo-floresiensis-y-nuestra-ilustre-genealogia/

         2016

_____. "Homo floresiensis o la complejidad de la evolución humana." Reflexiones de un primate 9 May 2017.*

         http://reflexiones-de-un-primate.blogs.quo.es/2017/05/09/homo-floresiensis-o-la-complejidad-de-la-evolucion-humana/

         2017

Brown, P., M. J. Morwood, R. P. Soejono, Jatmiko, E. Wayhu Saptomo, and Rukus Awe Due. "A New Small-Bodied Hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia." Nature 431 no. 7012 (28 Oct. 2004): 1055-61.

         http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v431/n7012/index.html#article

Brumm, Adam, et al. "Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis." Nature 441 (1 June 2006): 624-628.

García Landa, José Ángel. "El Hombre de Flores y la narración." In García Landa, Aggelos: Mi enviado—Blog de notas de José Ángel García Landa (septiembre-diciembre de 2005) 25 Sept. 2005.*

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z05-3.html

         2012 DISCONTINUED 2018 Online at the Internet Archive.*

         https://web.archive.org/web/20181005040830/http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z05-3.html

         2020

         https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/39910765843/in/dateposted-public/

         2020

_____. "El Hombre de Flores y la narración." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 25 Sept. 2005.*

         https://garciala.blogia.com/2005/092501-el-hombre-de-flores-y-la-narracion.php

         2025

_____. "El Hombre de Flores y la narración." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 26 Sept. 2005.*

         https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2025/09/retropost-2005-el-hombre-de-flores-y-la.html

         2025

         https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/1971490514332438601

         2025

_____. "Los viajes de Mandeville y el Hombre de Flores." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 20 Jan. 2009.* (Tyson, Windle).

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2009/012002-los-viajes-de-mandeville-y-el-hombre-de-flores.php

         2009

Hawks, John. "Stalking the Wild Ebu Gogo."

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/flores/forth_2005_ebu_gogo.html 

         2005-09-24

_____. "Flores Dwarf Hominid." In John Hawks Anthropology Weblog.

         http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/flores/

         2006-01-30

"El Hombre de Flores desapareció hace 50.000 años." Ibercampus 31 March 2016.*

         http://www.ibercampus.es/el-hombre-de-flores-desaparecio-hace-50000-anos-32728.htm

         2016

Jacob, T., et al. "Pygmoid Austromelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population Affinities and Pathological Abnormalities." PNAS (2006).

Kaifu, Yousuke, et al. "Unique Dental Morphology of Homo floresiensis and Its Evolutionary Implications." PLOS One 18 Nov. 2015.*

         http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141614

         DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141614

         2015

Madison, Paige. "Los huesos de rata podrían cambiar la historia del hobbit humano." National Geographic 13 March 2019.*

         https://www.nationalgeographic.es/historia/2019/03/los-huesos-de-rata-podrian-cambiar-la-historia-del-hobbit-humano

         2019

_____. "Investigating Homo floresiensis and the Myth of the Ebu Gogo." Aeon 3 Feb. 2020.*

         https://aeon.co/ideas/investigating-homo-floresiensis-and-the-myth-of-the-ebu-gogo

         2020

Morwood, Mike, Thomas Sutikna, and Richard Robert. "The People that Time Forgot / Lost World of the Little People." Photog. Kenneth Garrett. Art by Lars Grant-West. National Geographic (April 2005): 4-15.*

Morwood M. J., P. Brown, Jatmiko, T. Sutikna, E. W. Saptomo, K. E. Westaway, R. A. Due, R. G. Roberts, T. Maeda S. Wasisto and T. Djubiantono. "Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia." Nature 437: (2005): 1012-1017.

Morwood, Mike, and Penny van Oosterzee. A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange history of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia. (Smithsonian Books).

Sawyer, G. J., Viktor Deak, et al. The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans.  Text by Esteban Sarmiento, G. J. Sawyer, and Richard Milner, with contributions by Donald C. Johanson, Meave Leakey and Ian Tattersall. (Peter N. Névraumont Books). New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2007.* (Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus ramidus and kadabba, Australopithecus anamensis, Kenyanthropus platyops, Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus aethiopicus, Australopithecus garhi, Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus/crassidens, Homo rudolfensis, Homo habilis, Paranthropus boisei, Homo ergaster, Homo georgicus, Homo erectus, Homo pekinensis, Homo floresiensis, Homo antecessor, Homo rhodesiensis, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens).

Sutikna, Thomas, et al. "Revised Stratigraphy and Chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia." Nature 30 March 2016.* (Disappearance 50,000 years ago).

Weber, George. "Relatives in Indonesia." In Weber, Lonely Islands.

         http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter49/text49.htm

         2011

Wilford, John Noble. "A Tiny Hominid with No Place in the Family Tree." New York Times 27 April 2009.*

         http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/28hobbit.html

         2016

Wong, Kate. "Controversia en torno al hombre de Flores." In Evolución humana. (Temas, 44). Investigación y Ciencia- Edición española de Scientific American, 2nd tr. 2006. 34-44.*

_____. "Fossils Hint at Long-Sought Ancestor of Weirdest Human Species." Scientific American  9 June 2016.*

         http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossils-hint-at-long-sought-ancestor-of-weirdest-human-species/

         2016

Zimmer, Carl. "Island of the Lost Hominids." The Loom 26 Oct. 2004.

         http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/026745.html

         2005-09-24

_____. "Hobbits (Homo Floresiensis)." Collected posts. In The Loom.

         http://loom.corante.com/archives/hobbits_homo_floresiensis/

         2006-05-22

 

 

 

 

Images

 

 

Antón, Mauricio. "Legends of the Flores Hobbits." Chasing Sabertooths 18 Jan. 2020.*

         https://chasingsabretooths.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/legends-of-the-flores-hobbits/

         2020

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

"Flores Man Special." News@Nature.com 26 Oct. 2004.

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html

2004-10-29

 

Hawks, John. John Hawks Anthropology Weblog

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/

         2005-09-27

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Detroit, Florent. "À la découverte de l'Homme de Flores." Video lecture. YouTube (Musée de l'Homme) 10 July 2018.*

         https://youtu.be/-ECl9_5W5ng

         2021

 

Monge, Janet (Dr.). "Great Beasts of Legend: The Hobbits of Flores Island: Myth, Magic, Majesty of Homo floresiensis." Video lecture. YouTube (Penn  Museum) 6 Feb. 2017.*

https://youtu.be/23AhhvXXoJ4

         2023

 

Tocheri, Matthew W. "Homo floresiensis: Past, Present, and Future." Video panel. YouTube (UMLV Anthropology) 7 Dec. 2022.*

https://youtu.be/v_CNYB3bZDY

         2022

 

Australopitecos

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Australopithecus

 

 

Ardrey, Robert. African Genesis. 1961. Fontana. (On Raymond Dart and Australopithecus).

Arsuaga Ferreras, Juan Luis, and Ignacio Martínez Mendizabal. La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana. (Tanto por Saber). Madrid: Temas de Hoy, 1998.*

_____. La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana.  (Biblioteca Divulgación Científica). Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, 2008.*

_____. "5. El chimpancé bípedo." In Arsuaga and Martínez, La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2009. 101-26.*

Asfaw, B., T. White, O. Lovejoy, B. Latimer, S. Simpson and G. Suwa. "Australopithecus garhi: A New Species of Early Hominid from Ethiopa." Science 284 (2000): 629-35.

Berger, L., and R. Clark. "Eagle Involvement in Accumulation of the Taung Child Fauna." Journal of Human Evolution 29 (1995): 275-99.

Bermúdez de Castro, José María. "¿Qué especie humana inició la era de la tecnología." Reflexiones de un primate 27 Jan. 2015.*

         http://reflexiones-de-un-primate.blogs.quo.es/2015/01/27/que-especie-humana-inicio-la-era-de-la-tecnologia/

         2015

_____. "Australopithecus prometheus, el regreso." Reflexiones de un primate 31 Jan. 2019.*

         http://reflexiones-de-un-primate.blogs.quo.es/2019/01/31/australopithecus-prometheus-el-regreso/

         2019

Cela Conde, Camilio José, and Francisco J. Ayala. Senderos de la evolución humana. (Alianza Ensayo, 188). Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2001. Rpt. 2003. 2005. 2006. 2008.* (Evolution, genetics, hominids, australopithecus, homo erectus, neanderthals, prehistory, origin of language, origin of morality, taxonomy).

Conroy, G. E., M. W. Vannier and P. V. Tobias. "Endocranial Features of Australopithecus Africanus Revealed by 2 and 3-D Computed Tomography." Science 247 (1990): 838-41.

Dart, Paul Raymond A. "Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa." Nature 2884.115 (7 Feb. 1925): 195-.

Dart, Raymond A., and Dennis Craig. Adventures with the Missing Link. 1959.

Du, Andrew, and Zeresenay Alemseged. "Temporal Evidence Shows that Australopithecus sediba is an Unlikely Ancestor of Homo." Science Advances 5.5 (8 May 2019).

         DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav9038

         https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaav9038

         2019

"Face-to-Face with Lucy's Family." National Geographic (March 1996): 114.

Falk, Dean. "Language, Handedness, and Primate Brains: Did the Australopithecines Sign?" American Anthropologist 82 (1980).

Grine, F. E. Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989.

Harris, Marvin. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." In Harris, Nuestra especie. 3rd. ed. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2011. 26-29.*

Herries, Andy I. R., et al. "Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa." Science 368.6486 (3 April 2020).*

         DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw7293

         https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6486/eaaw7293

         2020

Johanson, Donald C., Tim D. White, and Yves Coppens. "A New Species of the Genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa." Kirtlandia 24 (1978).

Johanson, D. C., and T. D. White. "A Systematic Assessment of Early African Hominids." Science 203 (1979): 321-30.

Johanson, Donald C., and James Shreeve. Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor. New York: William Morrow, 1989.

Johanson, Donald C., and Maitland Edey. Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. (Australopithecus; Homo habilis).

_____. El primer antepasado del hombre. Trans. Miguel Muntaner Pascual and María del Mar Moya Tasis. Introd. Pilar Zueras and Néstor Navarrete. Barcelona: Planeta, 1982.

_____. El primer antepasado del hombre. (Biblioteca de Divulgación Científica, 12). Barcelona: RBA, 1993.*

Johanson, Donald C., Lenora Johnson, and Blake Edgar. Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins. New York: Villard, 1994.

Johanson, Donald, and Blake Edgar. From Lucy to Language. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001.

Johnson, Lenora, Donald C. Johanson, and Blake Edgar. Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins. New York: Villard, 1994.

Jolly, Alison. Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1999.

Kimbel, William H., et al. "Was Australopithecus anamensis Ancestral to A. afarensis? A Case of Anagenesis in the Hominin Fossil Record." Journal of Human Evolution 51 (2008): 134-52.

Kimbel, William H., D. C. Johanson, and Y. Rak. "The First Skull and Other New Discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis at Hadar, Ethiopia." Nature 368 (1994): 449-51.

Koenigswald, G. H. R. v. Die Geschichte des Menschen. Heidelbert: Springer, 1960. 1968. (Evolution; Primates; Anthropoids; Australopithecus, etc.).

_____. Historia del Hombre. Trans. Francisco Javier Segovia Espiau. (El Libro de Bolsillo). Madrid: Alianza, 1971. 2nd. ed. 1972. 3rd ed. 1979. 4th ed. 1980. 5th ed. 1981.

_____. Historia del Hombre. (Biblioteca Fundamental de Nuestro Tiempo; Sección Ciencia y Técnica, 50). Madrid: Alianza Editorial / Club Internacional del Libro / S. A. de Promoción y Ediciones, 1984.

Leakey, Louis S. B. The Progress and Evolution of Man in Africa. New York, 1961.

Leakey, M. D., R. L. Hay, G. H. Curtis, R. E. Drake, M. K. Jackes and T. D. White. "Fossil Hominids from the Laetoli Beds?" Nature 262 (1976): 460-66.

Leakey, M. D., and R. L. Hay. "The Fossil Footprints of Laetoli." Scientific American (February 1982): 50-57.

Leakey, Mary. Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography. Garden City (NY): Doubleday, 1984.

Leakey, Richard E. The Making of Mankind. Sherma B. V., 1981.

_____. La formación de la humanidad. Trans. Montserrat Domingo de Miró. Barcelona: Serbal, 1981.

_____. La formación de la Humanidad. Trans. Montserrat Domingo de Miró. (Biblioteca de Divulgación Científica, 4). Barcelona: RBA, 1993.*

Leakey, R., and M. Leakey. Koobi Fora Research Project.

_____. "A New Miocene Hominoid from Kenya." Nature 324 (1986): 143-46.*

_____. "A Second New Miocene Hominoid from Kenya." Nature 324 (1986): 146-48.*

Leakey, Richard E., and Roger Lewin. Origins. 1977.

_____. Nuestros orígenes. Barcelona: Crítica, 1994.

_____. People of the Lake. 1978.

_____. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

El Periódico. "Viaje al cerebro del homínido." El Periódico de Aragón 3 April 2020: 29.* (Zeresenay Alemseged; Australopithecus).

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/2004/200403_z0_cerebro.pdf

         2020

Rivera, Alicia. "Un extraño homínido que aspira a cambiar la historia evolutiva." El País 11 April 2013.* (Australopithecus sediba)

         http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2013/04/11/actualidad/1365702374_397905.html

         2013

_____. "Homínidos africanos algo duros de oído." El País 22 May 2013: 16.* (Australopithecus, Paranthropus).

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1305/130522_z0_paishomo.pdf

         2013

Sands, Leo. "Fossils: Cave Woman One Million Years Older than Thought." BBC News 29 June 2022.* (Australopithecus Africanus).

         https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61976369

         2022

Sawyer, G. J., Viktor Deak, et al. The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans.  Text by Esteban Sarmiento, G. J. Sawyer, and Richard Milner, with contributions by Donald C. Johanson, Meave Leakey and Ian Tattersall. (Peter N. Névraumont Books). New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2007.* (Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus ramidus and kadabba, Australopithecus anamensis, Kenyanthropus platyops, Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus aethiopicus, Australopithecus garhi, Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus/crassidens, Homo rudolfensis, Homo habilis, Paranthropus boisei, Homo ergaster, Homo georgicus, Homo erectus, Homo pekinensis, Homo floresiensis, Homo antecessor, Homo rhodesiensis, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens).

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. L'Apparition de l'homme. Paris: Seuil, 1956.* (Australopithecus, Sinanthropus, Pitecanthropus, Fossils, Homo sapiens).

_____. La aparición del hombre. (Ensayistas de Hoy, 15; Edición oficial del comité 'Teilhard de Chardin', 2).  Madrid: Taurus, 1958. 2nd ed. 1961. 3rd ed. 1963. 4th ed. 1964. 5th ed. 1965. 6^th ed. 1967.*

 

 

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

Evolutionary Anthropology (1999). (Australopithecus anamensis).

 

Science (April 2010). (Australopithecus sediba)

 

Science (Sept. 2011). (Australopithecus sediba)

 

Science 12 April 2013. "Australopithecus sediba" (Special Collection).*

         http://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/sediba/index.xhtml

         2013

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Becoming Human: First Steps. Writer and dir. Graham Townsley. NOVA documentary. YouTube

         http://youtu.be/YBp3SHp_Mwo

         2014

 

CARTA. "Origins of Genus Homo - Australopiths and Early Homo; Variation of Early Homo; Speciation of Homo." YouTube (U of California Television (UCTV)) 19 April 2016.* (William Kimbel, Philip Rightmire, Pascal Gagneux).

         https://youtu.be/CazsHKnxmHQ

         2016

 

Hublin, Jean-Jacques. "Homo sapiens: l'espèce orpheline (1) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2016-2017): Modèles d'apparition d'Homo sapiens." Lecture, 4 Oct. 2016. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) Sept. 2022.*

https://youtu.be/BJyGn4xoY30

         2022

_____. "Homo sapiens: l'espèce orpheline (3) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2016-2017): Formes archaïques africaines." Lecture, 11 Oct. 2016. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) Sept. 2022.* (Anatomy of Homo sapiens)

https://youtu.be/rDr-jZOvTzg

         2022

_____. "Avant les hommes... (1) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2020-2021): La découverte des origines africaines." Lecture, 13 Oct. 2020. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) 12 Sept. 2022.*

https://youtu.be/yNs-QbHjMh8

         2023

_____. "Avant les hommes... (2) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2020-2021): Les premiers Hominines." Lecture, 20 Oct. 2020. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) 12 Sept. 2022.*

         https://youtu.be/IkNfLOzhuBY

         2023

_____. "Avant les hommes... (3) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2020-2021): Les australopithèques d'est en ouest." Lecture, 3 Nov. 2020. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) 12 Sept. 2022.*

         https://youtu.be/_K7j7OuEUHo

         2023

_____. "Avant les hommes... (4) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2020-2021): Dans les karsts sud-africains." Lecture, 10 Nov. 2020. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) 12 Sept. 2022.*

https://youtu.be/ffz80ZpuRaQ

         2023

_____. "Avant les hommes... (5) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2020-2021): Paranthropus." Lecture, 17 Nov. 2020. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) 12 Sept. 2022.*

         https://youtu.be/fpbGJG4Rr1A

         2023

_____. "Avant les hommes... (6) - Jean-Jacques Hublin (2020-2021): Plus proches du genre Homo." Lecture, 24 Nov. 2020. Video. YouTube (Sciences de la Vie – Collège de France) 12 Sept. 2022.*

         https://youtu.be/MO5MKiT0OWo

         2023

_____. "Spéciation et extinction chez les Hominines (5) – Combien d'espèces d'hominines?" Video lecture (Collège de France, 23 Feb. 2022). YouTube (Collège de France) 11 March 2022.* (Australopithecus, Early hominins, Hominids).

         https://youtu.be/fDeXuNy5nz8

         2022

 

 

 

 

See also Human origins; Paranthropus.