another recent species in genus Homo?

[eub]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996588

The remains of a tiny and hitherto unknown species of human that lived as recently as 13,000 years ago have been discovered on an Indonesian island.
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The female skeleton, known as LB1 - or by the nickname "Ebu" - has been assigned to a new species within the genus Homo - Homo floresiensis. Examination of the remains shows members of the species stood just 1 metre tall and had a brain no bigger than a grapefruit.

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[jinian.livejournal.com]

This article says 380 ccs for H. floresiensis brains.

Strangely difficult to find information on very small H. sapiens brains. Here is a very odd page on which one can skip down to "15 VERY SMALL PEOPLE" or scroll through the little icons of the first ten men in space and other things. Clearly some of the very small people were intelligent, but it doesn't say anything about the size and quality of their organs.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Wow, my grapefruit was way out of whack.

That is an odd page indeed. Yeah, I can't find any information specifically on small people's organ volumes either. One wonders how H. floresieses were proportioned, head to body, compared with various small sapientes.