Comments on: Hobbit Limbo?

By: anon

anon — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:37:49 +0000

Here is a link to an interview that is related to this. http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200411/r36240_90550.asx

By: tyas

tyas — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:38:10 +0000

Hmmmh. As an Indonesian I feel a bit ashamed about this ‘incident’, if I may call it so. Indonesian paleoanthropologists involved in the H. floresiensis research claimed that the Australians had done ‘scientific terrorism’. The Indonesians were hurt because the announcement of the fossil was done abroad, when the research’s still not complete, and without any of the Indonesians present. The Indonesians thought that the Australians felt free to do such things because they funded the research, and that’s just not right.
It’s about bad nationalism, really. But then again the government here doesn’t give much fund to scientific research — hence the dependence of some researches to foreign fund source.

By: Linkmeister

Linkmeister — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:09:20 +0000

Regarding the possibility that the fossils may be out of reach, what recourse does the scientific community have, if any? Obviously public condemnation is one tactic, but is there anything else that could be done to prohibit such a thing?

By: DEAN BEHNCKE

DEAN BEHNCKE — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:04:55 +0000

We have had thirty plus (30+)years to culturate ourselves to Prof. Raymond Dart’s theory,i.e.”The Predatory Transition From Ape To Man”. Dart predicted a WEAPONS FETISH, a tribal evolution, and consequently an astoundingly simplistic, albeit catastrophic evolutionary narrative: seven (7) million years of tribal warfare have seen us to ……..this! Headlines everyday amplify the “Extended Dart Theory” (XDT), with it’s myriad implications. The most obvious is “VANITY”; our primary intellectual instinct. Vanity is mediated by our endocrine systems as well as our cerebral cortex, and provides ample motivation for the Systematic Perverted Bastardry which sweeps the planet every day.
xxxxxx deani the good xxxxx

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:30:17 +0000

On the question of interaction between Homo floresiensis and Homo sapiens, it is interesting to compare the fictional history of another intelligent species discovered on a different Indonesian island, as described in Karl Capek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts.” In that imaginative and satirical account, the species is enslaved and bred to serve Homo sapiens, but eventually gets the upper hand.