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New Fossils Strengthen Case for ‘Hobbit’ Species
- thomasrossi 10y agoI think the author misspelled, should be "Homo Baggins", not quite sure what is the "Homo Floresiensis" about!
- Shivetya 10y agoIts based on where they were discovered, an island named Flores in Indonesia.
- Jill_the_Pill 10y agoThey've found the fairies, the elves, the little people. There are so many legends of small folk, I wonder if this species (or more likely its bones) were more wide-spread beyond Flores or if island dwarfism happened several times in human evolutionary history.
- Lordarminius 10y ago"Critics have argued that the Liang Bua bones might have come from a member of our own species who suffered some kind of growth disorder, such as Down syndrome." Do these critics also suggest that the pygmies of the Congo all suffer from an endocrine disorder as well?