Re: Human Hobbit find

From: dwelsh46 (dwelsh46_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/29/04


Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:36:02 -0700


"Seppo Renfors" <Renfors@not.com.au> wrote in message
news:41809767.FD20099A@not.com.au...
>
>
> "2004 - Peter Brown, Mike Morwood and collaborators announce the find
> of an 18,000-year-old hominid skeleton on the island of Flores in
> Indonesia. Found among the remains of giant lizards and pygmy
> elephants, formally named Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the
> "hobbit," the fossil is 1 meter tall, with a brain case of 380 cubic
> centimeters."

I propose that the species name should be modified to Homo hobbitus
floresiensis.

Dave Welsh
dwelsh46@cox.net



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