deowll
2010-04-17 23:22:56 UTC
http://web.me.com/redifiori/Russell_Di_Fiori/Island_Biogeography_files/foot%20of%20H.%20floresiensis.pdf
Read it then make your own call. This foot is less like the foot of living
humans than than any other organism so described.
It may well be less like the foot of living humans than the recently
described a'pith or even any known a'pith foot however do you really want to
call a tool making, fire using being whose ancestors made it across the
Wallace line under their own steam an a'pith?
If you do what does that say about the probable abilities of at least _some_
a'piths?
Of course we can't be certain that the longer toes aren't a derived feature
developed after this species reached Flores in response to local
circumstances however this being has many other physical traits shared with
pre Homo and very early Homo so . . .
Read it then make your own call. This foot is less like the foot of living
humans than than any other organism so described.
It may well be less like the foot of living humans than the recently
described a'pith or even any known a'pith foot however do you really want to
call a tool making, fire using being whose ancestors made it across the
Wallace line under their own steam an a'pith?
If you do what does that say about the probable abilities of at least _some_
a'piths?
Of course we can't be certain that the longer toes aren't a derived feature
developed after this species reached Flores in response to local
circumstances however this being has many other physical traits shared with
pre Homo and very early Homo so . . .