News articles tagged with 'dwarfism'
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Researchers discover evolutionary event underlying the origin of dachshunds
— 17 Jul 2009 03:04 | BiologyA single evolutionary event appears to explain the short, curved legs that characterise all of today's dachshunds, corgis, basset hounds and at least 16 other breeds of dogs, a team…
Island life - a probable reason for hobbit's small brain
— 6 May 2009 17:00 | Geology and palaeontologyThe hobbit, Homo floresiensis, may have had a tiny brain because it lived on an island, according to a new study published in the recent (7 May 2009) issue of the scientific journal…
Micronesia colonised by small-bodied humans
— 11 Mar 2008 20:51 | Geology and palaeontologySince the reporting of the so-called 'hobbit' fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced,…
When animals evolve on islands, size does not matter
— 7 Nov 2007 08:08 | BiologyA theory explaining the evolution of giant rodents, miniature elephants, and even miniature humans on islands has been called into questions by new research published today in Proceedings…
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