30 January 2007

Homo floresiensis

This remains an under-reported science story. Well, maybe not under-reported but under-discussed by the general public. Imagine what it would mean for these little guys to not be extinct. What would it be like to share the world with another species of Homo? Would we have enslaved them? Eaten them? Ignored them? Did Jesus die for their sins too? Would Hitler have rounded them up and exterminated them or would he have recognized them as proto-Aryans and made one of them a minister in his cabinet? Just too, too interesting.

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