[EnderWiggins]

The interesting point this article makes is that evolution is not directional, i.e. it is not a constant progression from simple to advanced. In fact, it is non-directional except in the direction of fitness... a criterion that changes as the environment changes.

Sometimes brains get bigger. Sometimes they get smaller. And sometimes, they stay the same.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ask Tiger Woods and John Edwards... they did most of their thinking with smaller heads than that.

[FastCoyote]

[Sometimes brains get bigger. Sometimes they get smaller. And sometimes, they stay the same]

You certainly went out on a with that prediction. :)

[GeronL]

I thought this hobbit thing had been debunked years ago. I guess its like AGW in that people love pop-science

[Above My Pay Grade]

Or: “Evidence that Hobbits were Liberals?”

[Inyo-Mono]

Interesting article, thanks for posting.

[count-your-change]

Yep, just like global warming. If it gets colder, that proof of global warming, if it gets warmer, that proof of global warming, if temperatures neither rise nor fall, case closed for proof of AWG,, climate change, global warming, the consensus is in..everything is proof.

Yep, big brain, little brain, no change, all change, all proof of evolution.

Outstanding.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wendy1946]

The problem is with the basic laws of mathematics and probability, with which evolution is essentially incompatible. A reasonable person could entertain a theory which required one or possibly even two probabilistic miracles in the history of the universe, or possibly even in the history of our own planet.

But evolution(ism) requires infinite series of probabilistic miracles and zero-probability events. That basically stands everything we know about modern mathematics and probability theory on its head.

[Condor51]

Human Evolution; Is the Hobbit's brain unfeasibly small?