This is known as the Island Rule and was first proposed by biologist J. Bristol Forster in Forster studied different Species of island dwelling animals and published his findings in the scientific journal Nature. In the case of carnivores and larger animals like elephants, the islands that they ended up on simply could not support animals of their sizes. The bigger the animal, the more resources it would need.
The only way for a species to survive was to become smaller. Rodents, on the other hand, would be coming into a new environment much more suitable for animals of their stature.
They would often find more food with less competition allowing more individuals to grow to their maximum potential. The Channel Islands off of the California coast including Catalina have some perfect examples of the island rule. Pygmy mammoths were believed to have been Columbian mammoths that swam across the channel and shrank due to lack of water and vegetation.
Pygmy mammoths like their mainland cousins all went extinct thousands of years ago. Some living examples of the island rule are the channel island fox and Catalina California ground squirrel. The Channel Island fox is a direct descendant of the North American gray fox but like the pygmy mammoth, it shrank due to lack of resources. Channel Island foxes are only half the size of gray foxes found on the mainland.
Prof Falk said that she did not believe that the Japanese analysis excluded the alternative hypothesis of an as-yet-undiscovered small-brained ape-like ancestor that migrated from Africa. Professor Stringer said that the debate over floresiensis is part of a much wider discussion among scientists in the field which is resulting in a new and exciting retelling of the story of how humans emerged.
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