Re: Homo floresiensis

From: Yusuf B Gursey (ybg_at_TheWorld.com)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:43:24 +0000 (UTC)

In soc.history.medieval Michael W Cook <nuffspam@hotmail.com> wrote in <BDAC3487.6217%nuffspam@hotmail.com>:
: On 1/11/04 3:39 am, in article cm4b0h$1qmk$1@otis.netspace.net.au,
"Peter
: Jason" <paul@colonel.com.au> wrote:

:>> Furthermore, these newly found H. floresiensis specimens [the word
:>>>>> "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
:>>>>> intelligent.
:>>>>> --
:>>>>> Per Erik Rønne

: But it seems they were intelligent.

: As far as the development of mankind is concerned this is a huge and an
: extremely important find. Groups like this were always thought to have
: disappeared from the Hominid family tree hundreds of thousands of years ago,
: not 13.000 years ago.

: This is like someone finding a Mammoth or a Sabre-Toothed Tiger in Southern
: England and it dating to the Middle Ages.

: Floresiensis had a brain that was a third of the size of the Homo Sapiens,
: yet they used a stone technology that we commonly associate with Homo
: Erectus, whose micro-flints and blades became extremely advanced. Erectus
: had a brain that was also larger than that of Floresiensis.

perhaps they were not inovative, and continued methods of their smarter
ancestors.

: It is also thought they used some sort of language and they certainly had a
: primitive culture common with later hunter gatherers like Homo Habilis,
: whose brain was again larger than Floresiensis and around 3/4 that of modern
: man.

: Neanderthal Man had a larger brain than us, so it doesn't always go to form
: that the larger the brain the more intelligent.

yes, but it was also more massive, so the proportion was similar to ours.
IIRC.

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