Re: Human Hobbit find

From: Tom McDonald (tmcdonald2672_at_nohormelcharter.net)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:49:49 -0500

Tedd Jacobs 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.
>
>

        We hates baggenses. 

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Tom McDonald
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