Re: Homo floresiensis

From: Eric Stevens (eric.stevens_at_sum.co.nz)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:21:57 +1300

On 28 Oct 2004 21:14:25 GMT, Philip Deitiker <Nopdeitik@att.net.Spam>
wrote:

>In sci.archaeology, JMB created a message ID
>news:clrkce$fq8$1@kermit.esat.net:
>
>
>> Plus, looking at the BBC report, they made some fairly
>effective tools.
>> That requires a fair bit of intelligence and abstract
>thought. They didn't
>> just pick up rocks and use them as they were, they needed an
>ability to
>> picture what shape they wanted to transform that rock into
>in order to
>> create a workable and effective tool. Their brain may have
>been about the
>> size of a chimps, but they seemed to use it in a much
>different way.
>
>A full grown chimp would weigh about 50% more than this
>hominid. The correct measure is CC to LBM.

That can't be right.

Otherwise the way to improve the performance of your computer is to
give it a lighter case of aluminium! LOL.

Eric Stevens