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The Hobbit Trap - How New Species Are Invented (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Hobbit Trap - How New Species Are Invented (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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When scientists found the remains of a tiny hominid on an
Indonesian in 2004, they claimed they found a totally new species
of human ancestor (homo floresiensis), and called it a Hobbit. Film
crews rolled in and the little creature took the world by storm,
but a group of prominent scientists, including Maciej Henneberg and
Robert Eckhardt, smelled a rat. They refuted the data--the size and
shape of bones, the inferences about height--and they raised
fundamental questions about scientific method, revealing cultural
and political pressures that lead to the wide acceptance of
unsupported theories. The Hobbit Trap describes how the case
against the "new species" theory developed and offers an important
critique of the species concept in evolution. In this thoroughly
updated second edition, the authors include new data and analysis
of the Flores fossils, and expand their important analysis of
scientific practice, calling for a new movement to reverse the
decline in scientific standards and the rise in scientific
politics. This lively and important challenge to conventional
wisdom is accessible to the general reader and makes a stimulating
addition to courses on the history and philosophy of science,
evolution and physical anthropology.
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