Re: Causes of floresiensis' Dwarfism

From: deowll (deowll_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:21:46 -0500

"John Roth" <newsgroups@jhrothjr.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@hotMOVEmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Algis Kuliukas wrote:
>>>
>>> Rich Travsky <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:<41800967.FA27FCC@hotmMOVEail.com>...
>>> > Some interesting bits:
>>>
>>> [... very interesting...]
>>>
>>> > 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?
>>>
>>> It's not surprising that you pick out a snippet that seems to
>>> contradict the AAH, Rich. Interesting that you don't choose, as your
>>
>> "Seems"? An island with all those supposed seaside resources and
>> yet "a low calorific environment"?
>
> I saw a comment on one of the mailing lists that the beaches
> may have been occupied by Komodo dragons. Not an environment
> conducive to long life, eh?
>
> At this point, I'm intrigued, but it still looks like insufficient
> data to say whether this is an h.e. variant, or an h.s. variant.
>
> John Roth
>

The one thing everybody seems to be sure of is this is not an Hs variant.

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