Sentences with phrase «floresiensis descended»
«This study is purely based on differences in morphological characters between fossil specimens, with each character weighted equally, and with disregard of any functional aspects of every character,» says Dr. Gerrit van den Bergh of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, one of the authors of the 2016 study published in Nature that supports the idea that H. floresiensis descended from H. erectus and was made small by insular dwarfism.
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«We looked at whether Homo floresiensis could be descended from Homo erectus,» Argue said.
Certainly, stranger things have happened, but not everybody thinks we can be «99 percent sure» H. floresiensis is not descended from H. erectus.