Re: Flores Man

From: No Alternative (noalternative_at_operamail.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: 29 Oct 2004 02:36:14 -0700

"Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@skynet.be> wrote in message news:<4181335e$0$30695$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>...
> "Algis Kuliukas" <algis@RiverApes.com> wrote in message
> news:77a70442.0410271943.7f8d3364@posting.google.com...
>
> > > "Its ancestors, probably a form of H.erectus, could have reached the
> island in the hunt for stegodons one mill.yrs ago, either by building some
> kind of boat or by walking across a short-lived land-bridge." - hominids
> with brains of c 380 cc building boats? - "short-lived land bridges" -
> where have we heard this before (A: connection between S.America & Africa to
> avoid continental drift theories...)
>

Brain to body proportions are more important than just the size of the
brain. If these people were only 1/3 the size of erectus, than their
brains weren't smaller. Anyone ever considered this? One of the
problems here is that this story is being reported by
non-anthropologists. Steven Jay Gould in "Mismeasure of a Man" showed
the problems that arrived when early "social darwinists" would measure
the intelligence of different ethnic groups using skulls from
ununsually small non white groups. Also, the remains are female, and
that can affect the results as well, since women on average are
smaller than men, but the brain to body proportions are the same.

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  • Re: Flores Man
    ... >> Brain to body proportions are more important than just the size of the ... > darwinists" would measure the intelligence of different ethnic groups ... but the brain to body proportions are the same. ... Some of the other remains were claimed to be male by some sources. ...
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  • Re: Flores Man
    ... kind of boat or by walking across a short-lived land-bridge." ... darwinists" would measure the intelligence of different ethnic groups using ... but the brain to body proportions are the same. ... much heavier than this female. ...
    (sci.anthropology.paleo)