Comments on: Chasing the trail of the 'Hobbit'

Dean Falk, anthropology professor at Florida State, talks about controversial research that may indicate the existence of a new species of ancient hominid.

[Bertbaby]

Great Find and Story

This is an incredible story and controversy that just won't go away! It is amazing that the dig was stopped at one point and only recently have the original researchers been allowed to return to Flores. There is even a fictional novel and podcast available on this topic at www.floresgirl.com .

[flashfast]

Bah Humbug!

**** sapiens with a neurological disorder called microcephaly?
This argument can also be applied to other recognised examples
of pre-man that somehow 'establish' the current thinking, where
human looking specimens have been dismissed with a variety of
gobbledygook (including carbon dating errors, dramatic soil
level shifts) to maintain the current myth that we were once a
deformed ugg boot covered in dung. Anthropology is an history
of endless and oft arrogant argument.

[Michael Grogan]

Hmmm?

Seems to me you have the argument backwards. Start with the idea that at 18k years ago this would not have been a precursor. Fully modern man appeared long before that.