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Post details: The little lady of Flores files: Something I want to write down before I forget
04/05/09
The little lady of Flores files: Something I want to write down before I forget
by Denyse O'Leary
ARN correspondent
The other day I was at my local grocery store and I noticed what appeared to be a girl child shopping. But I quickly realized - watching from behind - that it could not be a child.
Movements too precise, too disciplined. Honed by decades of experience, not mere years.
Well, she turned around and - it was a woman only slightly younger than me.
An almost proportionate dwarf. She came up only to the bottom of my rib cage - and I am only 5 ft tall.
Thus she was less than a metre tall, for sure.
Of course I immediately ceased to look at her - continuing to look would have been rude.
Her head struck me as slightly too large for an adult, in proportion to her body, which is why I describe her as a "nearly proportionate" dwarf.
Then, a few days later, I saw another nearly proportionate dwarf - a different woman - in another part of town - about the same size.
So I am even more skeptical than I used to be of claims that Flores man represents a "different species" of human.
I always was skeptical of the little lady of Flores claims as evidence for a new human species, but am especially so when I run into normal humans who just happen to be very small.
I think it more likely that - just as the elephants on Flores were unusually small, so were the people. While it would be interesting to know the reason for that, we need not assume that the people were a different species.
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Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O'Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada's Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).
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