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by tankkisankari » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:36 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm
Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world.
Reading the story i got thinking, is Danny de Vito a Homo floresiensis, he's short and can repeat words given to him.
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by GoalieIDS » Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:34 pm
That's freakin' awesome. And I agree that Danny deVito could very well be the modern day floresiensis.
So do you think we'll find that yetis exist and are another offshot of the human species?
Finding more of those little guys out in the jungle would be weird... would be interesting to see how the world would react to something like that.
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by tankkisankari » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:16 pm
Stories and legends may very well have some factual base, passed onto generations after genaration and changing slightly each time someone tells it again.
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by mikehendo » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:22 pm
Well, if itis not a hoax, it sure does blow certain parts of the theory of evolution out of the water.
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by Rorschach » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:36 pm
According to the story I read in the papers this morning mike, some are not even sure if these wunnerful li'l guys are related to us
Then again it was the Daily Record, a rag more suited for toiletary sanitation
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by Azurain » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:45 pm
[quote="mikehendo";p="415553"]Well, if itis not a hoax, it sure does blow certain parts of the theory of evolution out of the water.[/quote]
Uhm... I'm honestly not sure how it would blow any part of the theory of evolution out of the water, unless they were directly related to us at some relatively recent stage. Care to clarify how, exactly?
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by Stax » Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:10 pm
Uhm... I'm honestly not sure how it would blow any part of the theory of evolution out of the water, unless they were directly related to us at some relatively recent stage. Care to clarify how, exactly?
I think the clarification is that he doens't fully understand the theory of evolution. This would merely add another off-shoot rung to the family tree of humanity, a branch that evolved off and died off thousands of years ago. There already are some, and this appears to be another
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by Deacon » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:02 pm
Ah, so now we know where Kits' family is actually from
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by Blaze » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:19 pm
I saw that yesterday. ALMOST made a thread about it.
It's very cool. The trouble with where it falls on the evolutionary tree is that it's got parts that put it in about 5 different places, so it WOULD mess up our map of evolution.
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by Grumlen » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:28 pm
Ah, except it's important to keep in mind that a species that lived in isolation actually branches off on it's own once it reaches that isolation. It won't mess up the evolutionary tree any more than adding it in where ever we can best figure it belongs.
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by Bjarni Herjolfsson » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:27 pm
Maybe it was a misget and the whole thing was a fluke
They only found one skull, right?
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by Azurain » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:32 pm
the Article wrote:The researchers have since found remains belonging to six other individuals from the same species.
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by Bjarni Herjolfsson » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:08 pm
Multiple midgets...
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by Mr.Shroom » Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:07 pm
...and just one forum moron.
Bygones. Its always neat to add another family to the humble hatch of hominids. I actually missed this story, thanks for posting it.
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by Kits » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:59 am
[quote="Deacon";p="415603"]Ah, so now we know where Kits' family is actually from
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Just so you know, I saw that.
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