New Hominid Species Unearthed in Indonesia

Radical Rad writes "ABC News is reporting that anthropologists have found the skeletal remains of seven hobbit sized hominids. The population may have been wiped out by a volcanic activity 12000 years ago or according to local legend may have lived up until the 1500's living on in caves and eating food the villagers would leave out for them. Also found were bones of giant lizards and miniature elephants. CBS also has the story." National Geographic and the BBC have good stories.

Comments

typical western culture whitewashing.....

[johnpaul191]

once again they got you to think everything is based in europe or north america. it's like when you see Jesus as being blonde with blue eyes

yes, i realize i used the term "western culture".

Re:New species explaination

[greg_barton]

But normally, exilors wouldn't choose to live together with the exilees...

How many assumptions, based on zero evidence, will you make before you stop? That's the real quesiton here...

This story is gay...

[charlie763]

and that creature is such a homo.

Re:non-human?

[globaljustin]

Oh brother, don't RTFA me...of course I read the fucking article. I read all about the spurrious claims about a whole people group based on finding one set of remains.

"The skulls are not similar to Homo Erectus,from which these creatures are thought to descend"

My question is, howso? They're smaller than ours??? From my own observation of the pic in the story, the single skull that was found looked very human, only smaller.

"See above. It is often debatable whether or not unique features (in this case size) represent a continum or a distinct species. It is not an exact science, and we may never know for sure. However, there is no other example of an adult human being so small."

So it's debatable that this could be a new species....hmm...I'll leave that alone. So what if this is a small specimen. I can think of many human beings that are small, they are called children.

"Pygmies are considerbly taller then these "hobbits". Also Pygmies are modern humans, the "hobbits" were not."

You say that these 'hobbits' were not human and just end it. What proof do you have that these specimines are not human? Where's the incontrivertible evidence? Plus, just because these humans are smaller than Pygmies, doesn't mean that they aren't still human.

"The findings are being reported in Nature, which has exceedingly high standards. There is absolutely no reason to make such accusations."

wow, I didn't realize what a huge journalistic paragon the good folks at 'Nature' have been building. In fact, the editors and contributors of Nature are the same entreprenurial researchers who I am rightly accusing of making an illogical leap in their findings to get support for their research projects.

Yes, I can make these accusations because that's what scientists do, be skeptical. I think that this research is based on bullshit science and I want someone to show me how I'm wrong.