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    Pathologizing the Hobbit

    By Posted on 3.21.2008 5 Comments

    When there is only one skull to study and at least 65 scientists studying it, you bet there will be squabbling. Ive been following the scientific news of the diminutive Flores hominids—the meter-high beings with brains the size of an orange—ever since the astonishing fossils were first discovered on the Indonesian island in 2004. Recently, three new papers have emerged, and now things are really getting weird.

    3.24.2008 at 11:34pm - Comment by justathought

    have been reading about the hobbits since they were first found. I find it interesting for several reasons. I am a hyperpurturty dwarf. age 46 wt 79lbs ht 4'9" I find it hard to believe that a whole group of humans will have the same type of dwarfism "caused by genetic or environmental" there are ex of populations of short people "pigmy’s etc” of animal populations in the fossil record "stunted dinosaurs etc" I tend to believe that was the case, it was natural selection on this one population. There are other examples of two or more human species in the fossil record, alive at the same time why not the hobbits and modern man. as for the notion that in some articles I read that the population my have been also mental retarded, they would not have been able to survive more then one generation in that condition expelly living with stone age tecnoly.



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