http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/03/03/\ healthscience_calendar/ -- THURS., MARCH 6 Hobbits in the haystack The Peabody Museum of Archaeology...
More info on the lecture, here: http://peabody.harvard.edu/current_events.html Lecture, March 6, 5:30 pm Hobbits in the Haystack: Homo Floresiensis and Human...
There are parallels with other "island relic," insular species, including Homo floresiensis. Here's an excerpt, outlining the "island relic" nature of this...
These "Hobbits as Sick Humans" attacks keep coming, for some reason. One is discredited, and another one, already equally discredited, ventures forth...
P.S., the argument involving "modern humans" living on Timor more than 42,000 years ago, is very weak. As has been pointed out quite clearly, including by the...
If we ate the mastodons and mammoths into extinction ... why are there elephants still around? Do they taste bad? -- Anthony Dauer Annandale, Virginia ...
Here's a piece of evidence that appears to debunk the "hobbits as modern human cretins" claim... The evidence of fish cooking at the site, provides strong...
Hi Anthony, Interesting question. I may have an answer (a compound/complex answer, as usual.) Answers might include factors such as: varying terrain, vast...
Also, there is that hypothesis I formulated, that pachyderms (dwarf stegodons) may have been domesticated for defensive purposes. For instance, in the SE...
Also, if not domesticated, merely staying relatively close to the pachyderms, could have conferred that defensive benefit. (Staying in the elephant-cleared...
See the link below for further articles discussing this claim, including some convincing rebuttals -- For instance, the range of dates for discoveries, the...
Here's an encapsulated version of the points I've been making, in rebuttal to the "Hobbits as modern human cretins" claim. I posted a similar version at...
In addition to what has already been said, the following appears to make the case against the "Hobbits as Modern Human Cretins" claim, quite definitive: -- ...
Here's what I posted a minute ago, in reply to Caley's comment: -- Great info, Caley. Thanks for sharing. Another point I could mention is, the 840 thousand...
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/305/3?rss=1 Were the Flores Hobbits Really Cretins? By Elizabeth Culotta ScienceNOW Daily News 5 March...
Here's another "encapsulated" post, which doesn't repeat the points in my original "encapsulated" post, but includes links to additional relevant material. (I...
The significance of this would be, the human/chimp/gorilla last common ancestor was not a knuckle-walker, but was most likely bipedal. (There is actually a...
... wrote: Hi Anne, As shocking as it is (it goes completely against established dogma on human genetic differences, so it is very shocking to most people,)...
... wrote: The third link I reposted is no longer active. Here is an alternate link: Implications of copy-number variation in the human genome: a time for...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?\ xml=/earth/2008/03/10/eapygmy110.xml Endangered pygmy hippo found in Liberia By Paul Eccleston Last Updated:...
Another link, the maximum detection of 10% genetic difference between individuals is explicitly stated here (the Nature paper doesn't state it up-front in the...
I'll upload the PLoS ONE paper here, as soon as possible. This looks very interesting. If the Rampasassa and other Flores islanders are correct, in saying...
Here is the link for the article on PLOS ONE (free access) : Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%\ ...
Interesting blog entry on this: http://anthropology.net/2008/03/10/3000-year-old-\ small-body-humans-in-palau-micronesia/ March 10, 2008...2:52 pm 3,000 year...
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