Homo floresiensis
Subject in Life Sciences
Homo floresiensis has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Gregory ForthCanadian cultural anthropologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and author of "Between Ape and Human"
Forth says that while discovery would vindicate him, he believes it would be better to leave the creatures alone if they exist.
“It would also kind of vindicate me, I guess you might say. But on the other hand, I think it would be much better if they still exist to leave them alone”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2577 - Gregory Forth (Nov 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:38:08
Forth stresses he does not claim floresiensis or a descendant definitely survives, focusing instead on the experiences of Flores people.
“I don't attempt to argue that Floresiensis or something deriving from Floresiensis is definitely still around. I'm not going to make a statement of conviction like that”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2577 - Gregory Forth (Nov 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:25:30
Forth says he agrees with Chris Stringer that floresiensis may derive from a far more primitive lineage near the australopithecines.
“he suggested that for his answers, it's something much, much more primitive physically and that it derives from something much older”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2577 - Gregory Forth (Nov 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:19:29
Forth argues that over at least 50,000 years and a 700,000-year possible ancestry, floresiensis must have ranged widely across Flores rather than a single locality.
“the notion that they were restricted to one small neighborhood is just not credible. They must have been all over the map of Florence”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2577 - Gregory Forth (Nov 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:56
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan argues that capturing such a creature would raise serious ethical problems because it is neither quite a monkey nor a person.
“It gets real squirrely if they captured one of these things and then they have to decide what to do with it”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2577 - Gregory Forth (Nov 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:37:20
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
#2577 - Gregory ForthThe Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 5, 2026 · 2 h 19 min
Joe Rogan talks with anthropologist Gregory Forth about Homo floresiensis, Flores islanders' accounts of living small 'ape men,' Bigfoot, and the scientific conservatism around hominin evolution.