The Flores Skeleton and Human Baraminology
Kurt P. Wise
Occas. Papers of the BSG No. 6, pp. 1-13
©2005 BSG.
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| Abstract |
The morphology, age, and stratrigraphic relations of the recently described Homo floresiensis
skeleton suggests it might represent a distinct post-Babel human
population with an extreme morphology. Combined with the morphologies
and relative ages of other post-Babel humans (e.g. H. erectus, H. neanderthalensis), H. floresiensis
suggests a high post-Flood intrabaraminic diversification rate
decreasing to the present. This coincides in time with a similar
pattern in non-humans, suggesting the mechanism of intrabaraminic
diversification operated across all living organisms. The fact that
many of the differences in fossil human morphologies can be achieved by
differential development and the changes seem to be isochronous with
the Biblically-evidenced decrease in human longevity suggests that
human diversification may have been due to changes in development.
These changes in humans probably followed pre-programmed trajectories
through biological character space, the specific course of which may
have been largely effected by founder effect and genetic drift in small
populations following Babel.
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