Re: Homo floresiensis

From: Tedd Jacobs (Jacobs_at_mail.boisestate.edu)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 05:35:24 -0600

"Eric Stevens" wrote...
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:15:56 GMT, Martyn Harrison
> <nospam@spammers.of.the.world.unite> wrote:
>
>>Apparently on date Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:33:10 -0600, "Tedd Jacobs"
>><Jacobs@mail.boisestate.edu> said:
>>
>>>"Martyn Harrison" wrote...
>>>> Apparently on date Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:57:10 -0500, Tom McDonald
>>>>>Per R?nne wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "hobbit" seem to be the every-day name given to the species] had a
>>>>>> brain
>>>>>> at only 1/3 of H. sapiens. I wouldn't call such a species sentient or
>>>>>
>>>>>intelligence. I want to read more about the material culture
>>>>>found associated with H.f. That is going to go some way to
>>>>>answering the intelligence question.
>>>>
>>>> Well, some stuff has been reported here and there, which sounds
>>>> plausible
>>>> enough.
>>>>
>>>> There's a volcanic ash layer 12,000 years old. Below, but not above it
>>>
>>>ref. the reports i've read place the ash above. let me rephrase
>>>that,...
>>>the /media/ reports i have read...
>>
>>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.

eric,
    dont try to make an argument where none is present,... read before you
hit 'send'.

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