Comments on: Reduced Brain Size of Homo floresiensis Hints at Her Likely Ancestors

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:52:12 +0000

I think it will eventually be recognized that Homo floresiensis does not, in fact, belong in the genus Homo. The species has too many primitive pre-Homo features.

By: onyx

onyx — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:37:27 +0000

hm. first observation, i don’t see the premise primates would trend to bigger brainsize is a reasonable case, i never expected it to be unidirectional, allthough i think the idea that primate morphology facilitated braingrowth more then other taxons(if thats the word) is reasonable plausible and sound. also i see yet one more corroborative point for their being of insular dwarfism origin in their quick extinction after their still recent interactions with modern humans (or perhaps non inbred cousins because they must have obviously spend some time on flores). a species adapted to still survive in isolation is commonly in danger of extinction when evolutionairy more flexible new species from a wider genebase arrive. lets say like rabbits in australia, or for example several extinctions in southern america after the landbridge formed. ofcourse there is less of a species correlation in such a case but i doubt it really matters for the result.

By: Wednesday Round Up #101 « Neuroanthropology

Wednesday Round Up #101 « Neuroanthropology — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:51:35 +0000

[...] H. Montgomery, Reduced Brain Size of Homo floresiensis Hints at Her Likely Ancestors Because of the reduced brain size of Homo floresiensis, it is unlikely that she descended from Homo [...]

By: Explaining the hobbit's small brain | SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:10:50 +0000

[...] Reduced Brain Size of Homo floresiensis Hints at Her Likely Ancestors Anthropology.net, 28 January 2010 Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis [...]