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Brown et al. and Morwood et al. reported, in 2004, that they had found skeletal remains of a previously unknown type of hom now dubbed Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. These hominins were small approximately 1 m tall) , with small braincases approximately 380 cm3) , as compared with other hominins. The remains of H. floresiensis were found alongside handmade stone tools and the remains of dwarf elephants that also inhabited the island, suggesting that H. floresiensis was able both to make tools and to coordinate the hunting of animals much larger than itself. H. floresiensis is estimated to have lived at the site where the remains were found from at least 38,000 years ago to 18,000 years ago.
-Which of the following observations would not support the hypothesis that H. floresiensis used symbolic spoken language?
A) finding that H. floresiensis manufactured stone tools for specialized purposes
B) finding the hyoid bone of H. floresiensis similar in morphology to that of modern H. sapiens
C) finding that several H. floresiensis individuals cooperated in ambushing and killing large prey
D) finding that a large ancestral population of H. floresiensis traveled to Flores by boat
E) finding that the brain regions responsible for speech were enlarged in H. floresiensis
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