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years ago in the gracile australopithecine lineage and would, thus, have been
associated with the changes in brain shape that Dart detailed for Taung.
51. Falk, Hildebolt, et al., “The brain,” 2005; Falk, Hildebolt, et al., Response,
2005; Falk et al. 2006; Falk, Hildebolt, et al., “Brain shape,” 2007; Falk, Hildebolt,
et al., “LB1's virtual endocast,” 2007; Argue et al. 2006, 2009; Groves 2007; Larson
et al. 2007, 2009; Tocheri et al. 2007; Gordon, Nevell, and Wood 2008; Jungers
2009; Jungers and Baab 2009; Jungers, Falk, et al. 2009; Jungers, Harcourt-Smith,
et al. 2009; Montgomery et al. 2010.
52. Laron, Pertzelan, and Mannheimer 1966; Hershkovtiz, Kornreich, and
Laron 2007.
53. Konfino, Pertzelan, and Laron 1975; Kornreich et al. 2002a,b; Laron 1995,
1999a,b, 2004; Laron et al. 1992; Laron et al. 1991; Laron, Pertzelan, and Karp
1968; Laron, Roitman, and Kauli 1979; Scharf and Laron 1972.
54. Laron, Pertzelan, and Karp 1968, 884.
55. Laron 2004.
56. Brown et al. 2004; Morwood et al. 2004.
57. See table 1 in Hershkovitz, Kornreich, and Laron 2007.
58. Brown et al. 2004; Hershkovitz, Kornreich, and Laron 2007, 199. The one
characteristic said to be typical for LS patients that hadn't been described for
LB1 is absent or undersized frontal sinuses.
59. Falk, Hildebolt, et al., “LB1's virtual endocast,” 2007, 42.
60. If anything, my colleagues and I are more bothered by the involvement
of journalists than we are by other scientists in these debates. Science writers
are usually highly educated and perfectly capable of assessing the scientific
merits of both sides of controversies concerning human evolution. At times
it is frustrating because, in going for a good (read dramatic) story and in giv-
ing a veneer of objectivity, journalists sometimes give more “equal time” than
scientifically warranted to views that they, in fact, know are highly question-
able. As a result, a few blustering colleagues have become skilled at inserting
“sound bites” that consist of pure puffery (i.e., are based on zero evidence) into
news stories or other media. This “Herr-Professor-Doktor” approach to Homo
floresiensis would be amusing if the sorry state of science education in America
weren't such a serious matter.
61. Falk, Hildebolt, et al., “Nonpathological asymmetry,” 2009. The journal
was the American Journal of Physical Anthropolog y.
62. The interested reader can find numerous images that compare LB1 with
untreated patients that had Laron syndrome, along with relevant quantitative
data, in Falk, Hildebolt, et al., “Nonpathological asymmetry,” 2009.
 
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