Moreover, since there is little objective evidence that proves this, it will be difficult to prove without additional — uncontaminated — examples. With the current moratorium on further archaeological digs this evidence will not be immediately forthcoming.

The detractors case isn’t any stronger. They claim that Morwood and Brown have only the one skull and fragmentary pieces to go by, well they have only one skull to go by.

My question to them would be: Is it impossible that a inherited genetic TRAIT that is characterized by a smaller than normal brain and head size should have characteristics similar to a genetic DISORDER characterized by a smaller than normal brain and head size.

It seems to me that there can only be so many ways the head and brain could be reduced in size and still be recognizably hominid and functional.

Well, those are my thoughts on the subject.

We do not have evidence of early man making rafts or similar, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If early primitive man made wooden constructs, we would never know, since the evidence would decay.

Ebu Gogo may have reached Flores thru’ processes we do not yet recognise. Perhaps it is part of a sub species that was widely spread before the current land mass configurations, & the evidence on Flores is simply the first to turn up or be recognised? We have to do more research.

Don’t you just love it!

Professional debunkers are spread across the entire spectrum of research into the unknown. Five hundred ago, they argued the Earth was flat. A little over a century back, they said that heavier than air vehicles would never fly. They have always been with us creating doubt and distrust. So, to have them pop up here with Homo floresiensis, is no real surprise.

Now, before I am fallen upon as if by a pack of wild dogs for such heresy, let me state clearly: A certain amount of skepticism, a degree of cautionary doubt is very healthy. But debunking for the sake of debunking is as ridiculous as blind faith just for the sake of being a believer. Both are extremes and those who practice them are extremists teetering on the far ends of their respective polarities.

If I was asked to make a prediction, I would say that more bone samples will inevitably be found. I would also wager that examples of the species may exist, overlooked, in a dusty museum drawer somewhere, labelled as a mutant or deformed individual.

I would be interested in speculation on whether the species existed outside Flores. My gut reaction would be that it did, or does.

12,000 years is not very long.