Anthropologist Confirms 'Hobbit' Indeed A Seperate (Human) Species
Well, that would explain James Carville...
Also, remember that the Hobbit survived the near-by super-volcano Toba 75,000 years ago, when as few a 2,000 and only as many as 10,000 humans worldwide survived that event.
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Hobbits are even alive today. Look at Julia Louis-Dreyfus who played Elaine on Seinfeld. She`s 5'2' tall and wears a size 8 1/2 size shoe. Excuse me, but small stature + huge feet = Hobbit, thank you very much.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000506/bio
"Also, remember that the Hobbit survived the near-by super-volcano Toba 75,000 years ago"
I thought that was Mt. Doom?
Well,... now we know Dennis Kucinich's origins.
Maybe near-by is a good place to be. The air might be clearer near-by, soon after the initial blast. Or maybe not. Just a thought.
What they really don't want to believe is that modern man might have also originated somewhere outside of africa. It steps directly into their PC crap.
"People refused to believe that someone with that small of a brain could make the tools. How could it be a sophisticated new species?"
Because intellect has a spiritual component as well as a physical one.
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What surprised me was the argument that a tribe of microcephalic humans survived for thousands of years.
If they find DNA it'll be the Holy Grail for them. Within ten years we'll be breeding these little people.
Certainly, in order to Hobbitize, it would take countless generations. So, is there a fossil record?
What about the environment selected for Hobbits?
During what period of time could humans or their ancestors have first migrated to this island?
When did it first get cut off from other land masses thereby allowing for the process of Hobbitization to go forward without interruption?
Answers, anyone?
Curious as to how they know its brain was 'rewired' since all they have are skeletal remains.
When archaeologists working on the Indonesian island of Flores announced a new species of human, Bob Eckhardt and colleagues set about debunking their claimAnthropologists frequently cite a unique shape or placement of teeth when describing a new species. According to Morwood's team, a CT scan had demonstrated the absence of a third molar for LB1. Etty Indriati had found the existing socket and a tooth fragment where the "missing" molar should have been. But LB1's teeth displayed other peculiarities, including enlarged wear surfaces, long roots, and an unusual rotated position of premolars in the upper jaw. "Those traits were characterized as unique," says Eckhardt. "But it turns out that the rotated premolars are shared by about 20 percent of the people still living in Rampasasa, a village near Liang Bua." This particular Australomelanesian population is short-statured enough to be known as the Rampasasa pygmies. Many individuals in the population show receding chins (another supposed species-distinguishing characteristic), leading Eckhardt and his colleagues to state in their PNAS paper: "Absence of a chin cannot be a valid taxonomic character for the Liang Bua mandibles." The Jacob team contends that Morwood and his research group should have compared LB1's teeth with those of other populations in the same region, such as the Rampasasa cohort, rather than with Homo sapiens from other geographic areas of the world, principally Europe and Africa.
by Charles Fergus
updated April 23. 2007
Penn State
Base of LB1 skull showing socket of alleged "congenitally missing" upper right third molar. Courtesy R.B. Eckhardt
Wow, that is an astounding statistic! Is this a consensus fact?
