It is strikingly similar to the following skull and endocast of a 32-year-old microcephalic woman. Together, the two specimens provide evidence that the LB1 skull from Flores, which is so similar ...

They then compared the hobbit's virtual endocast with those of a modern woman, a Homo erectus, a chimpanzee, and a modern microcephalic (a person with an abnormally small head). The hobbit ...