(2008) that there were smaller-bodied populations living in Palau or that insular dwarfism took place" Berger and co-authors Churchill and De Klerk replied to the study, saying "the logical flaws and misrepresentations in Fitzpatrick and coworker's paper are too numerous to discuss in detail" and that their restudy report "amounts to a vacuous argument from authority... and "ad hominem" assault, and brings little new data to bear on the question of body size and skeletal morphology in early Palauans".John Hawks, the paleoanthropologist who edited the original Palau article for "PLoS ONE", has replied in part to some of the dissenting researchers' claims (in his personal web blog).