Re: Homo floresiensis

From: I.E. Johansson (inger_nospam_e.johanssonx_at_telia.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:07:16 GMT

"Per Rønne" <spam@husumtoften.invalid> skrev i meddelandet
news:1gmdteo.3q5e6n1qs0biaN%spam@husumtoften.invalid...
> Martyn Harrison <nospam@spammers.of.the.world.unite> wrote:
>
> > Two items of significance, for me, the fact that there could still be
another
> > intelligent species sharing the planet, obviously.
>
> Well, it is said that they descend from Homo erectus, a species without
> the ability to speak and without the ability to think in any abstract
> manner - burials of the dead is only found in species H.
> neanderthalensis and H. sapiens.
>
> Furthermore, these newly found H. floresiensis specimens [the word
> "hobbit" seem to be the every-day name given to the species] had a brain
> at only 1/3 of H. sapiens. I wouldn't call such a species sentient or
> intelligent.
> --
> Per Erik Rønne

Your assumption can be correct. No doubts about that. But I guess we have to
realise that we H. sapiens aren't believed to use 1/3 of our brain's
capacity.... thus it's difficult to say which size of brain is needed for
intelligence to be possible to exist....

Inger E

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