In the Jan. 29, 2007 issue of the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States Dean Falk et al at Florida State University's anthropology department reveal evidence proving that Homo Floresiensis ought to be considered a homo species with a new type of small but very sophisticated brain. "LB1 has a highly evolved brain. It didn't get bigger, it got rewired and reorganized, and that's very interesting."
Klevius comment: See postings below and Out of Africa as "pygmies" and back as global "Mongoloids"! I rest my case!
One might also seriously consider whether the introduction >1.8 MYA of a FOXP2 related brain size determinant may have caused that Homo erectus & Co chose the dumb path to enhanced intelligence, namely via the enlargement of a low quality brain, whereas the chimp and chimp-human hybrid was forced to keep it small in the jungle and to create more intelligence through a more sophisticated processor!
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