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Old 03-3-2005, 07:41 PM   #1
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Default There goes our evolution theory...?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...c/hobbit_brain

What do you think? Is it possible that our idea of the evolutional theory is wrong? I seriously don't know how these "hobbits" came to exist, it's like a perversion of everything we know about evolution, unless of course they magically made something that gives off nuclear radiation. Anyways I still think it's pretty neat if it's true. I just can't believe that a 3 foot tall hairy monkey like midget/hobbit would share that much with our intelligence.

EDIT: BTW if this is not bs then this is our direct link to apes in evolution. I decided to post this because I saw in another thread Chromer is all like "IF APES TURNED INTO HUMANS WHY ARE THERE STILL MONKEYS RUNNING AROUND?!?!"
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Old 03-3-2005, 07:59 PM   #2
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Default RE: There goes our evolution theory...?

Uhm, Flores is HIGHLY isolated, and on any isolated environment, things evolve differently and in an odder fashion. Like that Galapagos.

Everything is pygmie on Flores. No radiation required, just a long-time lack of food.
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Old 03-3-2005, 08:24 PM   #3
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Yeah I was being a little sarcastic about them changing because of radiation... But still if they evolved that way from a "lack of food" why would they have a higher developed brain?
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Old 03-3-2005, 09:38 PM   #4
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Default RE: There goes our evolution theory...?

...Because food intake correlates with brain development.

Think about an elephant. Better yet, think about the brontosaurus. It had to stay half-submerged because of it's size--it's tree-trunk thick legs couldn't support it otherwise! It ate alot, and was stupid.

And "lack of food" was a bad way for me to put it. There just wasn't a whole lot of it on Flores, and EVERYTHING (animals) became smaller to adapt to it.
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Old 03-4-2005, 06:46 AM   #5
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Zildjian is an idiot.
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Old 03-4-2005, 02:25 PM   #6
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Actually, this evidence also supports evolution. Due to a shortage of food and space, species on that island did grow smaller. As the creatures got smaller, and animals developed into specialized survivors, intelligence was a useful trait. The brain can change a lot faster than the body, so as the smaller humanoids slowly became dominant, the smartest of the larger ones and the smartest of the smaller ones proliferated. In this situation, you have more twice the normal percantage of "smarter" animals, since the large and "dumber" animals died out, the smaller and "dumber" animals only produced a normal amount of heirs, and the "smarter" in either group produced offspring at a combined speed much higher than the "dumber" animals.
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Old 03-4-2005, 07:02 PM   #7
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It's an interesting article, even though I skimmed through it. What I want to know is when these guys were on their own private island? Was it while Alexander the Great was kicking butt, or was it when hippies were protesting the Vietnam war?
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Old 03-5-2005, 05:59 AM   #8
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They died out about the time that Upper and Lower Egypt unified.
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BC or AD?
I never read the Bible OR payed attention in History class.
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Old 03-5-2005, 03:12 PM   #10
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This does not in any way discount evolution. It could be interpreted in favour of or against it.
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Old 03-5-2005, 07:49 PM   #11
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Default RE: Re: RE: There goes our evolution theory...?

I got an article in history about this. Funny I say. Maybe Tolkien wasn't lieing?
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Maybe Tolkien was one of them?
I don't know if this is a stupid question or not, as no one has answered my BC or AD question.
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Old 03-6-2005, 07:24 AM   #13
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Mindfields you need to get yourself an avatar. May I suggest this one I made:

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Old 03-6-2005, 11:07 AM   #14
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Well, to answer Mindfields' question, let's count the facts. However no hard remains have been found of hobbits, making it harder to decifer when and where they came from, there is some knowledge that can lead to theories. Going by the word of the actual person who named them, in the first book of the trilogy's prolouge (sounding nerdy already) it says what year AD that the story takes place... well, it doesn't say AD, it says since the birth of Middle Earth, which you can easily infer realates to the death of Christ. Also, they speak with an Irish accent. 'Nuff said.
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hahahahaha

EDIT: BTW if this is not bs then this is our direct link to apes in evolution. I decided to post this because I saw in another thread Chromer is all like "IF APES TURNED INTO HUMANS WHY ARE THERE STILL MONKEYS RUNNING AROUND?!?!"[/quote]
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