Re: Homo floresiensis

From: Per Rønne (spam_at_husumtoften.invalid)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:26:48 +0200

Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:15:56 GMT, Martyn Harrison
> <nospam@spammers.of.the.world.unite> wrote:

> >Yeah, that's what I was meaning. The ash is above the remains (which are
> >below the ash), and may mark the extinction of Hf in a volcanic event,
> >just as it does the extinction of the pygmy elephants. OTOH, the Komodo
> >lizards survive to this day and the Hf could have moved on from finishing
> >off the last of the elephants to prey on lizard instead. Cold blooded
> >lizards ought to be more susceptible to short term climate changes
> >brought about by an eruption.

> I question your logic if you are suggesting that local lizards
> experienced a local extinction as a result of (a local) climate change
> caused by a local eruption. By definition, climate change is not a
> local event. If eruptions cause climate, wide areas are affected. If
> climate change was going to bring about the extinction of the local
> Komodo lizards it need not have been one of the local eruptions which
> was responsible.

Furthermore, Komodo lizards {dragons?} swim from island to island and
would be able to repupulate an island after a local extinction. 

-- 
Per Erik Rønne

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