Re: Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles

Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:


> The whole Hobbit thing is truly fascinating, but I wish everyone would sit
> back, take a deep breath, and wait for more research to develop. (Is it
> possible, for ex., to extract DNA from bones that old??)
DNA has been extracted from Neanderthal bones well older than the floresiensis
bones, but Flores's climate is rather more hostile to DNA than Europe's, so is
far from sure there's anything left to extract.

                                                        Andreas

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