Re: Homo floresiensis

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

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:48:14 -0600

"Eric Stevens" wrote...
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 05:35:24 -0600, "Tedd Jacobs"
> <Jacobs@mail.boisestate.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>"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'.
>
> What have I misunderstood about " Cold blooded lizards ought to be
> more susceptible to short term climate changes brought about by an
> eruption"? That's what Martyn wrote and that's what I responded to.
>
> Note also my use of the word *if*. I allowed for the fact that I might
> have misunderstood him.
>
>
>
> Eric Stevens
>

bull***.