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Hobbit remains found in Australia
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| Wed, Oct 27, 2004
| Patricia Reaney
Posted on 10/27/2004 10:51:55 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: scory
"If it has a brain the size of a chimp's isnt' it rather likely that it IS a chimp or variety of chimp?"
Perhaps but it would have to be a chimp that made "miniature tools" that were found with the remains.
To: Fedora
To: presidio9
The scientists suspect the new species became extinct after a massive volcanic eruption on the island about 12,000 years ago.Historical-critical source of Mt. Doom / Tower of Baradur myths...
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:29:28 AM PDT
by
aBootes
(Whatever Cheney hit, it's flat now)
To: presidio9; Constitution Day
And then you have your all-time classic Star Trek-LOTR double-whammy... That video needs its own thermobaric bomb.
I feel dirty after watching it... ick
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:32:59 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: DestroytheDemocrats
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:33:18 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: King Prout
LOL!
THANKS
Unless she has hairy toes, i don't know anything about her....
:-)
( and SOME boyz LIKE little girls! )
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:33:42 AM PDT
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
To: All
"It challenges the whole idea of what it is that makes us human."
No, it doesn't. From the info in the story it is probably an ape. How does discovering a new type of monkey challenge what makes us human? Because it was short? Ever hear of pygmys?
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:34:31 AM PDT
by
BadAndy
(Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
To: All
The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island of Flores, is of an adult female that was a metre (3 feet) tall, had a chimpanzee-sized brain and was substantially different from modern humans. It shared the isolated island to the east of Java with miniature elephants and Komodo dragons. The creature walked upright, probably evolved into its dwarf size because of environmental conditions and coexisted with modern humans in the region for thousands of years. Yes, but what the article fails to mention is that this new find consisted of strictly economists. We now know where Robert Reich and Paul Krugman come from. :-)
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:34:43 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Well... There you go again!)
To: jriemer
Gaaaah!! WHY? WHY would someone create that?
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:35:59 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(I don't know where the sunbeams end and the starlights begin, it's all a mystery...)
To: BadAndy
Not so fast. Here is a photo of the skull this new find, alongside a modern human skull. I've also posted a photo of a chimpanzee skull. Even a grade school kid can see that this small person is a hominid:
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:36:34 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: nosofar
...they immediately assume that we are direct descendants.There's nothing like that in the article.
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:40:33 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: presidio9
Found some pictures of these ancient tiny humans:
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:41:32 AM PDT
by
Defiant
(Kerry was a useful idiot during the cold war. In the war on terror, he's just an idiot.)
To: Marysecretary
So, you're saying that folks who've spent their entire adult lives studying comparative anatomy, anthropology and paleontology are incapable of telling a chimp skull from that of H. Erectus? It must be wonderful being oh, so much smarter than them damn eggheads what uses all them fancy words and such.
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:41:59 AM PDT
by
Junior
(FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
To: Doctor Stochastic
To: Soul_of_Chogokin
The article mentioned dwarfism is not uncommon in species finding themselves on relatively small islands. A species of dwarf mammoths once lived on the islands off California's coast.
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:44:33 AM PDT
by
Junior
(FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:45:42 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(I want to have fanatical henchmen when I grow up.)
To: presidio9
Another date for slick willy?
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:46:17 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
To: BadAndy
My father has pictures of him standing with pygmies he met while fighting in the South Pacific in WWII. He was in New Guinea for some of that time and other islands in the area. I'm guessing from the pictures I've seen that they were around 3 to 4 feet tall, but could have included different ages, not just adults.
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posted on
10/27/2004 11:46:18 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(I think, therefore I am Republican!)
To: presidio9
Yeah but chimp tools are little straws to poke at ants or rocks for hammering or maybe a shell for a cup. Don't cha think? And chimps don't carry tools around with them. They drop them once the task is finished.
To: presidio9
The remains were found with Florida ballots from 2000...
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