Hobbits Again
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Indeed! HE was the original intrepid global explorer! And deserves the credit. HSS was 'merely' a follower, 700,000 years later...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 101034.htm
A new species it is!
ScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2009) — Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical analysis on skeletal remains of a well-preserved female specimen, researchers determined the "hobbit" to be a distinct species and not a genetically flawed version of modern humans.
A new species it is!
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More Hobbit stuff.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=10126530
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=10126530
Ancestors of a hobbit-like species of humans may have colonized the Indonesian island of Flores as far back as a million years ago, much earlier than thought, according to a new study published Thursday.
These early ancestors, or hominins, were previously thought to have arrived on the island about 800,000 years ago but artifacts found in a new archaeological site suggest they might have been around even earlier.
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Which would suggest that Erectus would have had little difficulty in evolving into the Asiatics as the Chinese maintain."Flores man" is thought to be a descendant of homo erectus, who had a large brain, was full-sized and spread out from Africa to Asia about two million years ago.
Roy.
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Yeah - the OoA Club will be circling the wagons.
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Sure, but after dozens of hybridizations back and forth with other hominids like HS, Homo Antecessor, Homo Heidelbergensis, and a few others we haven't even found yet.Digit wrote:Which would suggest that Erectus would have had little difficulty in evolving into the Asiatics as the Chinese maintain."Flores man" is thought to be a descendant of homo erectus, who had a large brain, was full-sized and spread out from Africa to Asia about two million years ago.
The Asian race(s) is/are so much hybridized that it will be quite some time before that puzzle has been unraveled.
I suggest the Abos' evolution will be easier to analyse.
HF seems to have been very much like the Hottentots: a (sub)species, in HF's case largely evolved through island dwarfism, that went extinct. So what else is new? HF was a sideshow in human evolution. And as far as we know sofar totally inconsequential to it.