Reply to post: Re: Which is it?

Re: Which is it?

I still think it's fascinating. And a rich source of puns. So Pleistocene, morphology, and an escape from Sundaland..

But fun trying to extrapolate based on limited data, ie a few bones and other remains. Plus the island dwarfism potentially causing it's own evolutionary drift in various branches of the Homo- family tree. I also think it's great that a generation ago, much of this stuff would only be really known amongst interested anthropologists, and now thanks to the magic of the Internet, we can learn and share so much knowledge.

I've also often wondered what triggered evolution, and how flexible the branches were in the early days, ie the interbreeding, and presumably a combination of genetics and competition leading to the dominance of Homo Sapiens rather than Neanderthals, which to me seemed to have some potential advantages.