BIOL359 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neanderthal, Homo Antecessor, Homo Floresiensis
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Homo floresiensis, recently discovered relative (?) of h. erectus native to the indonesian island of flores. Small species can get bigger on islands. A small hominid living with giant rats. If the splitters are right then the post h. ergaster history is complex with at least 5 species: four in africa, europe and weatern asia. There is no correct solution to the nomenclature. Fossils 9ca 1. 2-0. 16 mya) often treats as archaic homo sapiens have been places by some in the past 20 years or so. This species id the cave man of movies and stories. Lived in europe and western asia up until the time modern man arrived in africa. Late neanderthals were shorter and thicker than modern humans. Not as much like us as some people have hypothesized. Late neanderthals had a slightly larger skull than modern man but it was projected further back.
