Reset Password
Reset Link Sent
| Blogs > Docofall007 > New Beginnings, Old Endings |
The Hobbit Enigma: Homo floresiensis
|
The Hobbit Enigma: Homo floresiensis The evolution of humans is an amazing process. This documentary (extract of media release below) questions so many tenets of the academic (archeology and many related fields) world of evolution. But why I found it more interesting was because of stories I have heard from Aboriginal people in north central Australia. Stories of the little hairy people that could do good or bad, steal something or leave something. Are these people of myths? So often there is reality in myths, maybe not the magical parts, but the existence of the object of the myth. I plan to pursue conversations with my brother (Aboriginal way) from down that way. I thought this was a good distraction from the election and the economic turmoil going on in the world...and of course my own randomly affected life which sometimes leads to happiness and other times not  The Hobbit Enigma: Homo floresiensis If there was a case where fact is stranger than fiction, this is it. Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist It was hailed as one of the most exceptional fossil discoveries in decades, so unexpected that it threatened to overturn accepted notions of human origins and posed questions that reach far beyond science itself. Not surprisingly it sent shock waves around the world that are still reverberating. The Hobbit Enigma takes us from the moment of discovery of the hobbit-like creature on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, through the bitter scientific arguments that followed, to the current investigations which reveal the real implications of the discovery: The meter-tall fossil raised so many questions because she looked so primitive, but was only 12,000 years old. How could the hobbits have survived for so long and until so recently? Who were their ancestors? Could it be that early humans have originated in Asia rather than Africa? Hominid evolution, it seems was not simply a linear march towards a bigger and bigger brain as was previously thought. The existence of Homo floresiensis challenges paleoanthropology's long-standing theory: that the genus Homo originated in Africa, and that an early type of Homo erectus equipped with a big brain and an advanced toolkit was the first human relative to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago. The Flores find forces us to consider that the first human may not be African at all, but may have originated in Asia where its tiny ancestors survived for countless generations on an isolated island. Written, directed and produced by Simon Nasht and Annamaria Talas for ABC Television in association with The Nature of Things.  open your heart and mind  |
|||||||||||||
|
 Stopping by to say hi !!! And to give you a kiss ! 
| ||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||
|
Whew ! At least they don't think man originated from outer space !  Great post, btw !
|
Become a member to create a blog
