2006: Another Hobbit Year In Images It has been another wonderful twelve months of learning more about Homo floresiensis and the human players in the drama....
It would be nice to know how direct the Rampasasa claim of the Paju myth or oral-history is. If we knew the number of years per generation for Rampasasa and ...
... wrote: Hi Bob, I think two of the basic problems are: 1. In my opinion, every LB1 trait that has been labeled "pathological" can be plausibly explained as...
... wrote: Hello Maciej, ... Yet, microcephaly isn't the only disorder that LB1 is claimed to have had. Or does microcephaly cause thinning of the cortical...
I'd like to explain something about the bone marrow issue. In the environmental context (Flores Island,) considering that marrow is highly caloric and could...
... wrote: Hi Bob, We certainly can agree to respectfully disagree, there is no problem with that! So, back to the points: I don't think a few days of...
... wrote: Bob, Remember we are talking about hominids, and jealousy over fat, per se, isn't the issue. It's jealousy over, or desperate competition over, food...
Here's another way to look at the LB1 dispute. Given what we know about the insular nature of some islands, and the relatively recent demise of various hominid...
... wrote: Oops -- right concept, wrong example. I don't mean that hypotonia is a functional ancestral trait (though who knows, it seems to work for sloths.)...
... wrote: Hello Maciej, ... <maciej.henneberg@> wrote: [snip] ... lowers ... cortex. ... not ... Just a thought, but perhaps some of these pathological traits...
... "Bob Keeter" <rkeeter@> wrote: - - - snipped - - - ... Don't need to. Just look at the pictures or read the reason LB cave bones match Hss ( because they ...
... - - - snipped - - - ... - - - snipped - - - 1810?-1890? Gandi ( village founded? ) I should learn to proof read. Why is it that I always pick on Gandi? ...
... wrote: Bob, ... for a ... we ... examples ... Interesting point, about the markers. I tend to agree, though I waver back and forth on that, a bit. The...
... wrote: Bob, ... [snip] ... environment ... are ... lifestyle ... As I touched on yesterday, evolution often arrives at different solutions for the same...
... [snip] ... is ... crew ... still ... I've been doing my best to satisfy Occham's Razor. I don't think I've made any illogical leaps, but of course,...
... wrote: FYI, before Maciej jumps on me: ;-) No, I am not saying that H floresiensis is a separate species. I'm merely using the terminology that is used...
... wrote: Hello Maciej, I was hoping you might say that, as I now have a good excuse to spell out exactly why I think the "pathological" explanation requires...
... wrote: Aha! I've discovered further information which supports the idea that LB1's thicker bone marrow was an adaptive, not pathological, trait. As I...
Hello everyone, I've forwarded this message to the Paleoanthropology and Palanthsci groups, as well, with the following comment: "Just some news I wanted to...
(Clarifying the bone marrow issue, in response to Bob Keeter in the Paleoanthro group.) Dan ... wrote: Sorry, Bob, but wrong again. As I said, there are two...
... wrote: Hello Maciej, ... energy ... The facts do appear to corroborate what I have said. (See below.) ... disproportionately ... Not thin and thick, per...
... wrote: I should note that the LB1 - Khoi-San comparison isn't particularly relevant, for other reasons, as well. Are the Khoi-San isolated on a tropical...
I hope this may also be of interest. Here is another of my replies, which I posted in another group (Palanthsci.) Dan ... wrote: Hi Dale, Thanks for your...
Regarding what I forwarded (see below,) this reveals one more point in favor of LB1's bone marrow being an adaptive feature, rather than a pathological...
[Responding to Maciej Henneberg] ... wrote: I see you ignore all of the scientific points I made, which call the pathological explanation into question....
... wrote: So, while not insignificant, the storage of calories in LB1's "extra large" marrow may relate to a weaker selective pressure than the one involving...
... wrote: P.S., Maciej, how have I insulted you, personally? Are you intricately intertwining your hypotheses and the LB1 dispute with your person, and...
Philip, Excellent point, about the bone marrow. I have something to add to it: the etremely nasty combination of bacteria known to populate the salive and...
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