Re: Human Hobbit find

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

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:27:53 +1300

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:08:27 -0600, "Tedd Jacobs"
<Jacobs@mail.boisestate.edu> wrote:

>
>"Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
>news:cltp0f$ehl$2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu...
>> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, spam@husumtoften.invalid (Per Rønne) wrote:
>>
>>> dwelsh46 <dwelsh46@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "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.
>>>
>>> Well, I think they will quickly be called "Hobbits" in the general
>>> public anyway - no layman will be able to remember "Homo floresiensis",
>>> the name itself sounds like a sobriety test!
>>
>> Let's go for Homo hobbitenses.
>
>Homo baggenses.
>
>

  'Bilbos'.

Eric Stevens