What does the recent discovery of a ca.700,000 yBP hominin at Mata Menge, Indonesia, tell us?
A) The pattern of hominin evolution is firmly established with little anatomical variation in the Middle Pleistocene.
B) The later Flores fossils must have evolved from the new, large-bodied Mata Menge hominin.
C) The "Island theory" to explain reduction in body size of many island-dwelling mammals is now disproven.
D) In predicting future research on both the early and later end of the evolution of Homo, we should expect the unexpected.
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