"Alien from Earth" 3/16/12

what was found at the site?
initial hypothesis? (2005 film)
2008 a lot of other hypothesis came up, how did they get these new hypothesis? 
-new information how did it get uncovered?


Flores, Indonesia villagers talked about little people of the forest
-thick eye brows, very small
-called "the eden gogo"
-found a skull
-the teeth showed that the individual was a female and an adult
-homo florensis was very small, hypothesis: one of us but a growth disease, microcenphilization
-brain cavity not like ours
-australian said no: h. florensis=ice age ended the water rose and didn't have a lot of nutrients and food to eat so people shrink
hypothesis: such a little brain (1/3 our size) could make stone tools, vastly different, width vs. depth and height.
little people ate kymoto dragons (weigh up to 500 lbs, spit contains bacteria that will eat your flesh)
-discovered 7 different fragments
-little people were alive during modern times
-little people+big people shared the island over 30,000 years
-wiped out by a major volcanic eruption about 12,000 years ago
or could they still exist?
-highly improbable but there could still be little people existing


2008 film
-20 ft down found a little arm bone
-possibly a human tooth found
-wisdom teeth exposed and worn mininature adult barely 3 ft. tall
-called the "hobbit"
-12 fragments, complete lower jaw, surrounding them pigmy elephants and stone tools
inferred that these people hunted and used fire
-how old the bones: 10,000-95,000 years
-hobbits brain differs from the microcephalic brain
brain shape is very different
-protruding frontal lobes
-need DNA evidence
-DNA would settle if it were a diseased hominid or a new species
-Premolars were similar (2 individuals living thousands of years apart were infected with the same disease or they were the same species)
-the teeth are nearly human in size but the front to back dimension of every tooth has been shortened
-carpals reveal changes in species
-bone was triangular and clearly not human
-island effect never known to shrink a human brain
-difference: dealing with a different kind of species than a human or chip
-fitting the bone at the base of lucy's spine and the hobbits pelvis
-pieces of the skeleton fit together so easily
-hobbit be a descendent from Lucy?
-the hobbit is a new species, what will that mean?
-in roder to make the stone tools the hobbit needed to know how to. what they found of the stone tools were very sophisticated.
-argument: homo erectus from Asian not Africa