Reuters is reporting something of passing interest…
LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists in Australia have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island in a discovery that adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution…
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The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island of Flores, is of an adult female that was a meter (3 feet) tall, had a chimpanzee-sized brain and was substantially different from modern humans.
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Brown and his colleagues have found the remains of seven other dwarf individuals at the same site since the first find.
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“The other individuals all show similar characteristics, and over a time range that now extends from as long ago as 95,000 years to as recently as 13,000 years ago — a population of hobbits that seemed to disappear at about the same time as the pygmy elephants that they hunted,” said Bert Roberts, one of the authors of the Nature study.
Hobbits that hunted Oliphants.
Ya know if this wasn’t an election season, I might have actually had some time to have some fun with this.
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