Somehow I hadn't seen this one earlier. I found it today via a link in another article. Dan http://tinyurl.com/2zgtej Indonesian 'hobbit' legends may be...
Dan, Have you done any research into the American version? While the majority of "little people" legends amongst Native Americans have them looking like...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Flores_Man group. File : /On the...
Flores_Man@yahoogroup...
Jun 2, 2007 9:29 am
1954
Anthony, Yes, I've read some, mainly online, but I understand there's a lot more material out there, in print, that I have yet to obtain. Quite a few Native...
In my opinion, It seems likely that bipedalism did first evolve in the trees. Interestingly, we reportedly have no fossil evidence for orangutan arboreal...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Flores_Man group. File : /walking on...
Flores_Man@yahoogroup...
Jun 2, 2007 7:47 pm
1957
I find it very interesting that LB1, in tiger-free Flores Island, appears to have the same habit/morphology depicted in the article as the likely ancestral...
Reading this Wikipedia entry on the Toumai specimen (Sahelanthropus tchadensis,) one can easily see that OOTI better explains the puzzling aspects of this...
Actually, I should have said, "...with the bulk of human ancestry stemming from later OOTI radiation(S,)" as there is morphological evidence (in my opinion)...
Note, I'm uploading some Toumai-related pictures to the group's photo album here: http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Flores_Man/photos/browse/34b1 (The...
... True, an interesting article, but somewhat dated. For a different opinion, try: http://www.physorg.com/news73663873.html Since the homo/pan "split" that...
... Thanks for the link, Bob! I agree with you about Toumai's potential importance. It's probably relevant in other ways, too! Yes, science is grand, and...
... Hi Philip, ... (Sahelanthropus ... No, I'm talking about the SE Asian islands, and radiations out of them. ... As fossil evidence already indicates, in the...
... wrote: Mario, Perhaps of interest regarding AAT and OOTI (which appear to deal with some of the same questions and data,) Toumai was discovered at what...
... wrote: Mario, OOTI (Out of the Islands, specifically the SE Asian islands,) is an attempt on my part to reconcile a bunch of data which otherwise seems to...
... that ... relevance, ... lens ... discordant ... formulating ... But this is basic problem with Ape theories. When one discusses an paleontological...
... Philip, Isn't calling OOTI (Out of the Islands) an "ape theory" roughly equivalent to calling any other hypothesis an "ape theory"? How about OoA and OoA2...
... Philip, The Old World (mainland, specifically,) Miocene apes apparently all went extinct. (The Thai orangutan fossils, with their very orangutan- specific...
... [snip] ... Oh, there was some ocean there, but this is a semantic game. Primates did make it to South America. The division between "primate" and "ape" is...
This sounds interesting. I'm going home now. But I hope to find out what the devil you guys are talking about! Were hobbits more chimpanzee-like than we ...
... [snippage] ... it ... or ... real) ... Actually, I can't say "true," above, with confidence. Australian fossils have been interpreted as having stemmed...
Who knows? Do you find any of the Rampasasa women attractive? They claim to be hybrid descendents of LB1, so the features that they have, that set them apart...
Alvin, More chimpanzee-like? No. I think the ancestral state wasn't very chimpanzee-like. Chimpanzees were probably more like Australopiths in the past....
... I should say that, I'm less than familiar with most archaeological work that's gone on in Australia. That's because I've been interested in earlier time...
... Oops. The majority opinion seems to be that Australian fossils are from "Out of Africa" modern humans. That doesn't seem to explain the morphological...
... http://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus By Heather Whipps,...
... wrote: Hello Marc, ... You're welcome. ... I don't know. I haven't found anything to indicate that, but it's possible. There are tributaries leading to...