On the show Science Friday on NPR this afternoon they had a segment about Florensis. Quite interesting. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200905084
> > Larry Lyons wrote: > > > Not so sure about that. What the common theory now is that they > are > > the result of island dwarfism. That would imply that they were very > > > limited geographically - possibly confined to at the most a few > > islands. They'd have to be much more widespread for there to have > been > > an impact on mythology. > > > > True, in the NOVA episode I thought they had a brief segment about a > > > possibly related find from somewhere Middle Eastern/Russian step if > my > > > > sleep deprived memory is not mixing things up. > > I would expect that the source would be Africa and African pygmies. In > the Sassinid empire of persia the emperors had pygmy slaves. > > But you may be right. the find was in Georgia. Here's the PBS Nova > episode. > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hobbit/ > And the link to the show's transcript: > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3515_hobbit.html > > So who knows. That part of the world is just opening up to > paleontology and anthropology, so there may be all sorts of > significant finds in the near future. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296904 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
