Re: Causes of floresiensis' Dwarfism

From: Nick Maclaren (nmm1_at_cus.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: 28 Oct 2004 13:59:42 GMT

In article <41800967.FA27FCC@hotmMOVEail.com>,
Rich Travsky <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com> writes:
|>
|> Hmmm. "relatively impoverished faunal communities"..."in the absence of
|> agriculture, tropical rainforests offer a very limited supply of
|> calories for hominins"..." a low calorific environment"
|>
|> What, didn't they eat all thoses fishies??? Clams, crabs (I hear one 500 gram
|> one can feed a whole family), molluscs, etc?

Yes, they lived mostly on Ostrea arborea.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.