tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post114807684654857973..comments2024-02-22T19:21:40.330-05:00Comments on Muhlberger's World History: The Flores Island "hobbit" debate continuesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-27019491666104148762007-08-22T18:35:00.000-04:002007-08-22T18:35:00.000-04:00I wish we had more information. I hope they find m...I wish we had more information. I hope they find more soon. I try not to "want" to think they were one thing or another, but try to rationalize the best I can based on the evidence. I don't buy the microcephaly theory. I think it's possible, just very, very unlikley that a clan of handicapped people would survive to adulthood on stone age Flores. I guess they only have the one skull, but skeletal bones from several other individuals. So I <I>do</I> believe they were a "dwarfed" race... my only question being were they dwarfed homo sapiens, dwarfed homo erectus - or something in between, possibly even with genetic contribution from both lines? <BR/>Gosh, I can't wait until we have more bones!<BR/>On another note, did you hear Polynesians discovered America at least several decades before Columbus? (see recent news about chicken-bone DNA comparisons)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-1163559359598968092006-11-14T21:55:00.000-05:002006-11-14T21:55:00.000-05:00It's always sad to find post without comments, I t...It's always sad to find post without comments, I think. I've just come back to my office from a seminar by Prof Mike Morwood, and he said they've now identified 13 individuals at Liang Bua, between 95,000 and 12,000 years old- the specimens share the same radius/femur ratio, which is distinct from modern humans, and their skull measurements and morphological features cluster around those of H. erectus and not microcephalic H. sapiens. But you probably knew that already, since this is back in May. Your post just looked lonely! ;)Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.com