To the team, this association suggests that H. floresiensis regularly hunted Stegodon. 研究团队认为，动物遗骸与石器的这种联系，显示弗洛瑞斯人经常狩猎剑齿象。
They further argued that it was a descendant of H. erectus that had become marooned on Flores and evolved in isolation into a dwarf species, much as the elephantlike Stegodon did. 此外，他们还论证弗洛瑞斯人是直立人的后裔，由于困处弗洛瑞斯岛，在与世隔绝的情况下演化成侏儒物种，与岛上的剑齿象一样。
