Top Scholars gather for 'Hobbit' debate at SBU

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If the Professors find an absolute human link to 'Hobbits' will we have to rewrite our known evolutionary history(that we really don't understand in the first place)?

Could mankind possibly be found in the beginning of his existance in multiple continents all at once?

Just think about what that means. We are not from one woman but rather many different types of women

I would expect this to be considered nothing more than an aberration, or the result of a disease, etc. The questions that florensis being valid would bring up, from myriad angles, arent something that evolutionary biology has any interesting in facing. Eventually, it will likely get accepted as valid, once yet another convoluted explanation is cooked up. But not before then, I dont think.

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Having been following this for a bit, the debate seems to be whether the "hobbit" is a pygmy human through genetics, or through a deficiency. While an interesting debate, it wouldn't do much to put in disarray our evolutionary history, regardless of the outcome.

Mostly what it shows is, while shorter, the species is something of a throwback, or a direct descendant to a earlier hominid species.

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I see what you're talking about. I wanted to know if there were any instances when a person living now was swabbed or DNA was extracted from a fossilized human specimen (not found in Africa) and there were no traces of African ancestry.

Can this be possible?

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Not that I know of, my understanding of the genetics involved with the migration theory shows that all humans share ancestors, that eventually settled into their particular points of the world.
As far as we re concerned as a species, the differences are much slighter than what you would have with many of the animals who converged along similar lines.
Point of example is, if we all evolved separately, then we would have significant troubles trying to interbreed.
We can interbreed successfully, meaning our offspring can successfully produce offspring.
Unlike, for example, lions and tigers, They can produce one generation of offspring, however that generation is sterile. They don't continue to reproduce.

Hey, I just thought of something else because of your comment. What if the lost civilizations could not properly breed with us?


Meaning: If some human like beings were here first and then our ancestors found them and breed with them but their kids could not have kids earth looses an entire race of human like beings.

This might explain why certain unearthed colonies disappeared with no sign of trauma.

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