Re: Causes of floresiensis' Dwarfism

From: Su Solomon (susol_at_zemail.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:55:26 +1000

deowll wrote:
>
> "Su Solomon" <susol@zemail.com> wrote in message
> news:4181A4A1.666@zemail.com...
> > Philip Deitiker wrote:
> >>
> >> In sci.anthropology.paleo, Su Solomon created a message
> >> ID news:41810156.7CFC@zemail.com:
> >>
> >> Your tough, an orang with a homo face?
> >
> > An Orang is not a Hylobate
> >
> >
> >
> >> You think the arms are 3
> >> feet long? lol. Homo beevisnbuttheadicus.
> >
> >
> > Please read the paper carefully, there are NO arms found with the
> > skeletons.
> >
> >
>
> I thought that was hands and feet. They claimed the arms were longer than
> expected.
 
No hands or feet were described in the paper.

There was a radius found in a much earlier deposit (some 50k older) this
was not described in any detail but Brown says in the Nature article:

"Although the arms of LB1 have not been recovered, the dimensions
of this radius are compatible with a hominin of LB1 proportions." (page
1060)