tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post8454748100307273639..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Was Homo floresiensis a cretin?Dienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-2447240325193893152015-02-11T10:26:13.855+02:002015-02-11T10:26:13.855+02:00I think that every body who want to know more abou...I think that every body who want to know more about Homofloresiensis found on 2004 can go and see directly on spot at Liang Bua cave. I just wonder when i was there and showed all skull but not on the cave. I permitted to local government where all skulls were kept there waiting until final decision of scientist of Indonesian and Australian. We hope all different opinion not to claim that Flores Hobbits will become the world surprise discovering but should be a good item to learn more for scientist. <br />Best allAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10647256787298063630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-10858881652282125762013-04-01T01:41:41.787+03:002013-04-01T01:41:41.787+03:00I think the idea that Flores had a population of s...I think the idea that Flores had a population of severely handicapped modern humans doesn't make sense. Hunter-gatherer societies don't have tended to let this severely disabled individuals to live normally, so the situation where this could have arosen would have had to be exceptional. I think people who make these cretin claims again and again are on thin ice when it comes to evidence, pretty naive about the realities of hunter-gatherer life and what surprises me is that obsession with Homo floresiensis when there are several more problematic proposed species and real problems in defining more solid species - for example, we hear again and again the claim that the Atapuerca Homo heidelbergensis would actually represent two different sub-species or species, but nobody seems interested of lookin this in detail.Raimo Kangasniemihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07317328563337885584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-42489317875692355942013-03-29T02:48:15.257+02:002013-03-29T02:48:15.257+02:00BTW it's almost sure this is Austraulopithecus...BTW it's almost sure this is Austraulopithecus anyway, due to the head proportion to the long arms.<br /><br />Which is great because you can't sequence Australopithecus due to age.<br /><br />So we can finally confirm if they are indeed proto human. Or even not, as the case may be.<br />Fiend of 9 worldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712083368615685458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-77435478796159015602013-03-28T04:44:40.073+02:002013-03-28T04:44:40.073+02:00Here we go again. So the new discussion is claimi...Here we go again. So the new discussion is claiming the island of Flores contained a population of cretins. All sorts of questions remain unanswered: is it really likely that Flores contained a whole colony suffering cretinism? How would they have survived? Why are people so anxious to avoid any suggestion parts of SE Asia may have had a separate species? terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-24981261473485529282013-03-28T01:49:46.428+02:002013-03-28T01:49:46.428+02:00It's always possible to find someone abnormal ...It's always possible to find someone abnormal but this is the standard response that crops up with every new hominid. It's a hydrocephalic ape or microcephalic human etc. etc. <br /><br />Considering how few skeletons there are out there it would be like hitting the lottery.<br /><br />Komodo dragons bigger than today would mean pigmies smaller than those today, obviously they were trapped on the island a long long time for this to happen. Doesn't mean they made any of the tools they found, though, as it was inhabited by AMH at some point.Fiend of 9 worldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712083368615685458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-29021445650797964292013-03-27T22:56:54.452+02:002013-03-27T22:56:54.452+02:00Part of me thinks that maybe both sides will be pr...Part of me thinks that maybe both sides will be proven right: LB1 and LB6 are a microcephalic representatives of a remnant population of early-diverging <i>Homo</i>. Why not?Mike Keeseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147156174467903264noreply@blogger.com