It’s been a great week for Science in the NYT. My favorite science writer, John Noble Wilford, and his colleagues have been filing tons of reports. Today was a look at the debate over the little people of the Indonesian island of Flores, who may or may not be a different species than home sapiens.
Quoted was my former antropology teacher:
Moreover, James L. Phillips, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a co-author of the new journal article, said the style and workmanship of tools found with the fossils were so advanced “that there is no way they were made by anyone other than Homo sapiens.”
Brought me back to a large brick and concrete lecture hall where Dr. Phillips (who is not exactly tall himself) showed us how homo habilus made tools. He struck two stones against each other swiftly, flaking off the objects of great technological advance– little blades of stone.
God bless us all.