Entries from November 2005

November 8, 2005

The Hobbit Brain

I’ve done my bit of flip flopping on the issue, and now this proverbial hatchet is unearthed again. Back in March of 2005, I wrote that I was convinced that the microcephaly of the Flores man findings indicated it was significantly a different species anatomically… a piece of evidence I so desperately asked for in [...]

November 7, 2005

Homo floresiensis hub bub

There be a lot of talk around the blogosphere about the Dean Falk endocast analysis of the Homo floresiensis brain, and quite frankly I’m more than impressed with the results. As I was making my obsessive mid-afternoon rounds of weblogging, I stumbled upon a one of a kind Pharyngula post, Homo floresiensis’s brain - Igor [...]