Does Homo floresiensis still exist?
There is no evidence, as of now, that would indicate that Homo floresiensis has survived to modern times. It is possible that they were present on Flores up until the arrival of Dutch explorers some four hundred years ago but again this is pure speculation. However, many researchers do believe there is a remote possibility that a small tribe of these ancient people await discovery in some remote, uninhabited islands of Indonesia. Research teams plan a return to Flores in 2005 to look for more fossils and, perhaps,to begin the search for actual survivors. This discovery of these survivors is the premise of the novel, Flores Girl: The Forgotten Children of God. Here is the answer from a leading expert of Homo Floresiensis, Bert Roberts, Ph.D., a senior research fellow at the University of Wollongong’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, excerpted from Nova, Science Now Q&A. Bert Roberts along with Peter Brown and Mike Morwood was one of the first Australian scientists to evaluate
There is no evidence, as of now, that would indicate that Homo floresiensis has survived to modern times. It is possible that they were present on Flores up until the arrival of Dutch explorers some four hundred years ago but again this is pure speculation. However, many researchers do believe there is a remote possibility that a small tribe of these ancient people await discovery in some remote, uninhabited islands of Indonesia. Research teams plan a return to Flores in 2005 to look for more fossils and, perhaps,to begin the search for actual survivors. This discovery of these survivors is the premise of the novel, Flores Girl: The Forgotten Children of God. Here is the answer from a leading expert of Homo Floresiensis, Bert Roberts, Ph.D., a senior research fellow at the University of Wollongong’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, excerpted from Nova, Science Now Q&A. Bert Roberts along with Peter Brown and Mike Morwood was one of the first Australian scientists to evaluate
