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Dr Jack
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Message 151 of 213 (250795)
10-11-2005 12:02 PM
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10-11-2005 9:55 AM


Re: More finds
They've filled in more details in the article
quote:
The new discoveries include missing parts of the old skeleton - designated LB1 after the caved dig site at Liang Bua - and a collection of other bones, such as jaw and cranial fragments, a vertebra, arm and leg bones, toes and fingers.
Jaw and cranial fragments should be sufficent to demonstrate a matching skull, shouldn't they?

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Message 152 of 213 (250812)
10-11-2005 1:04 PM
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10-11-2005 12:02 PM


Re: More finds
The jaw should help if it has (or doesn't have) the double-rooted teeth. The fragments - well it will depend on the reconstruction. Unless they're pretty large it could just fuel the controversy as the sides dispute attempts at putting the fragments together.

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Message 153 of 213 (251011)
10-11-2005 11:14 PM
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10-11-2005 9:29 AM


Re: More finds
of nine more individuals,
I read the article as they have found a total of nine, adding some new found parts to LB1.
bbc writes:
Now, the same team tells Nature journal it has skeletal remains from at least nine of the "Hobbit-like" individuals.
Thanks
This species issue can only be firmly resolved by finding more fossils, I'm afraid.

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Message 154 of 213 (251027)
10-12-2005 4:00 AM
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10-11-2005 11:14 PM


Re: More finds
They have 9 individual jaw bones, but I'm still going to side with the scientists who say it's not a seperate species, it's just an individual with a bad birth defect.
In this case a combination dwarfism and nine-headed-ness.
Wouldn't have wanted to be that guys prom date

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Message 155 of 213 (251198)
10-12-2005 3:41 PM
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10-12-2005 4:00 AM


Re: More finds
time
and a few more fossils
will tell

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Message 156 of 213 (251201)
10-12-2005 3:51 PM
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10-11-2005 1:04 PM


Double Rooted Teeth
The jaw should help if it has (or doesn't have) the double-rooted teeth.
FROM: The Loom Blog about life etc (click)
The key conclusion of the paper is that these fossils look a lot like the original Hobbit bones reported last year. The new jaw, for example, has the same peculiar roots on its teeth as the old one, and both also lack a chin. If the original Hobbit was just a pathological human, the authors argue, then all of these new individuals would have to be pathological too. And the fact that these fossils span 80,000 years makes it even harder to hold the pathology argument.
That may be from a blog, but the link is from Scientific American which gave it one of their Science & Technology Web Awards 2005
Both are good reads.
Enjoy.
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Message 157 of 213 (251228)
10-12-2005 4:54 PM
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10-12-2005 4:00 AM


Re: More finds
Nuggin writes:
Wouldn't have wanted to be that guys prom date
I dunno. My prom date said I had ten hands, and she didn't seem all that unhappy about it.

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Message 158 of 213 (251936)
10-15-2005 9:08 AM


Nature Article Links
Here is a Nature Editor's Summary of articles
Nature - Not Found
The discovery of a small-bodied hominin from the late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia, caused a great deal of interest. Its classification as a new species was controversial, but now there is more evidence for the endemic human species, Homo floresiensis. The remains excavated at Liang Bua on Flores include another tiny adult mandible, 15,000 years old, and the right arm bones of the original find, known as LB1. The new findings confirm the presence of a long-term dwarfed population from before 74,000 to 12,000 years ago and argue against the idea that LB1 was an individual with a growth disorder. There is also evidence for the use of fire, and butchery of the mammoth-like Stegodon.
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More evidence for hobbit unearthed as diggers are refused access to cave
More evidence for hobbit unearthed as diggers are refused access to cave | Nature
Palaeoanthropology: Further fossil finds from Flores
Further fossil finds from Flores | Nature
Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia
Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia | Nature
("1st paragraph" is same as above)
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Message 159 of 213 (252427)
10-17-2005 3:58 PM
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10-15-2005 9:08 AM


Re: Nature Article Links
My heart sinks when I read about how the fossils were mishandled and broken. Teuku Jacob's should be made to resign in shame.

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Message 160 of 213 (252477)
10-17-2005 7:01 PM
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10-17-2005 3:58 PM


Re: Nature Article Links
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt until I know more. He could have been researching the inside shape in a more traditional manner. We do not know what documentation he made.

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Message 161 of 213 (252862)
10-18-2005 8:36 PM
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10-17-2005 7:01 PM


Re: Nature Article Links
When you say 'in a more traditional manner" do you mean to suggest that fossils are often broken using some 'traditional' technique of measurement? I have no problems with alternative hypotheses to explain the fossils. (Although with the recent finds, I think the case for mutation has fallen apart.) I have problems with the most acclaimed anthopologist of Indonesia screwing up fossils of immense value to all of humanity.

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Message 162 of 213 (289422)
02-22-2006 1:59 AM
Reply to: Message 151 by Dr Jack
10-11-2005 12:02 PM


Re: More finds
I just registered and was wondering if there were any extractions of their Dna ???

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Message 163 of 213 (289494)
02-22-2006 9:17 AM
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02-22-2006 1:59 AM


Re: More finds
Not yet.. and it could very well be that there is none.. which would be a shame.

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Message 164 of 213 (291956)
03-03-2006 11:01 PM
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02-22-2006 9:17 AM


Re: More finds
There exists the will to get a sample I thought the Jo "Nature" was going to produce something from the sequencing and analysis of extracted "Dna" Has anyone heard the same ?

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Message 165 of 213 (291961)
03-03-2006 11:43 PM
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03-03-2006 11:01 PM


Re: More finds
The problem is that the conditions which the bones were in was not condusive for the preservation of DNA. I am sure they will want to try to extract DNA. That does not mean they will be successful. I know I want them to be able to.

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