--- In AAT@yahoogroups.com, "Dan G." <dgplexus1@...> wrote:

Also, there are diagnostic wrist bones from more than one Homo floresiensis
specimen, that do not match "Homo sapiens" morphology. (They do match the
morphology of Australopith, and African ape, wrist bones.) How many
diseased/deformed individuals were among that population, so that all of the
bones we have, are consistent with LB1's morphology? And why doesn't that
morphology match up with any known pathology? (I have joked previously, that
LB1 and her population must have had "Australopith disease," the same disease
that made Australopiths different from us.)

Dan

--- In AAT@yahoogroups.com, "DDeden" <alas_my_loves@> wrote:
>
> The Mousterian in Europe and Levant story is that the same tech was used by
neandertals and then sapiens. Now they're claiming Hs used same tools as
hobbits. Sounds fishy. Compare Japan, the Jomon-Ainu there for 35ka, 12ka made
pottery, then Sinitic Yayoi arrived about 2ka and changed to agriculture but
retained some Jomon culture.
>
> Seems to me hobbits were negritos (similar to Malayan Semang and Philippine
Eta and Andamaners), using rope ladders rather than stairs, to their stilt
houses to avoid common komodo dragons. That one deformed/inbred individual (and
some of family) stayed at or was kept at a cave, possibly viewed as a shaman, by
local Hs negritos is not so unusual. Much easier to comprehend that than an
isolated He tribe with only one skull found.
> -

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