Comments on: New York Times Profiles Ralph Holloway http://anthropology.net/2007/11/27/new-york-times-profiles-ralph-holloway/ Beyond bones & stones Sun, 27 May 2012 23:21:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kambiz http://anthropology.net/2007/11/27/new-york-times-profiles-ralph-holloway/#comment-7051 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:19:43 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/11/27/new-york-times-profiles-ralph-holloway/#comment-7051 I agree, Erik. I want more Flores fossils too and less of this sort of debate but that’s sorta hard to control. Holloway and Falk are established anthropologists, experts in their field, and they’ll study this thing ad nauseum.

]]> By: Erik John Bertel http://anthropology.net/2007/11/27/new-york-times-profiles-ralph-holloway/#comment-7042 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:58:28 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/11/27/new-york-times-profiles-ralph-holloway/#comment-7042 I love these types of arguments but frankly, I wish there were more specimens available to address these ongoing debates. It’s getting tiresome hearing this wrangling about this single find. The discovery of Homo floresiensis could be one of the great stories in human evolution and hopefully we’ll know more once the original research team gets back to the caves in Flores and to the other islands. Hard to believe, but their work was halted by the Indonesian government at one point further adding fuel to this mess.

Of course, I have a vested interest in this discovery, having written a fictional adventure novel called Flores Girl on the recent fossil find. If you are interested, there is more on this ongoing controversy about Homo floresiensis at http://www.floresgirl.com or catch the free Flores girl podcast at Podiobooks.com.

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