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"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."

Stephen King - "Different Seasons"

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quinta-feira, outubro 28, 2004

Pois é...
Os ferozes detractores dos Hobbit talvez tenham de engolir as suas palavras...

Bem, brincadeiras á parte, parece que tivemos, e até há bem pouco tempo, uns primos de um metro de altura que eram bons a trepar àrvores e datam de há 18 000 anos atrás, pelo menos.
Isto é, no mínimo, fascinante e dá indícios que multiplas espécies de humanos conviveram no solo terereno durante largos milhares de anos. Leva a uma reformulação das teorias de evolucionismo, mas demostra claramente um alargamento do espectro de aplicabilidade da teoria da evolução das espécies.
Se calhar não somos todos primos, afinal. Que pena para o Abominável César das Neves...

Hoje, no Guardian:

"Australian and Indonesian scientists have identified a new and completely unexpected species of human. It was only a metre high, had a small brain but a distinctly human face. It made delicate stone tools and it shared the planet with Homo sapiens at least 18,000 years ago.
The scientists report in Nature today that they found the skull and incomplete skeleton of creature known as LB1 in the sediments of a limestone cave at Liang Bua on the remote island of Flores in Indonesia last September.

Since then, fragments of bone from at least seven individuals have been found.

The new creature, officially titled Homo floresiensis but nicknamed "the hobbit" by some researchers, upsets the orthodox view of human evolution."

Continuem a ler " From 18,000 years ago, the one metre-tall human that challenges history of evolution"

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