Sunday, February 19, 2012
fossils
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/flores.html This article was about the discovery of a type of early human called Homo floresiensis or also know as the Hobbit. This is a species of dwarf human discovered at the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. Homo floresiensis was fully bipedal but only about one meter tall. This early human had a very small brain, modern teeth and a receding forehead. They lived in from 38,000 to 18,000 years ago. They made use of stone tools and fire. Scientist believe H. floresiensis is a dwarf relative of homo erectus. This discovery does not change anything from what we already believe in human evolution, but it does show one of the most drastic changes for human adaption ever found.
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That's pretty crazy that evolution took that path. I never would have thought that instead of getting taller, that evolution would have branched off into a dwarf version of Homo Sapiens. It is also crazy to believe that this group of early humans lived only 40,000 to 20,000 years ago
It's crazy to think that evolution has caused this type of dwarf people to be discovered in our species of Homo Sapiens today.And it would also be interesting to know how these people branched off and lived with our other ancestors long ago.
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