More Evidence For Hobbit Sized Species

GogglesPisano writes "CNN.com reports that scientists digging in a remote Indonesian cave have uncovered a jaw bone that they say adds more evidence that a tiny prehistoric Hobbit-like species once existed." From the article: "The discovery of a jaw bone, to be reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, represents the ninth individual belonging to a group believed to have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. The bones are in a wet cave on the island of Flores in the eastern limb of the Indonesian archipelago, near Australia."

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Small people = hobbit?

['t is DjiM]

More thoughts:

-Couldn't is be a case of a syndrome we know now (achondroplasia) that disables some hormones that are needed to make the body grow? Or something similar?
-E.g. Pygmy people are much smaller than most earthlings. Therefore, this particular finding could have been an individual of a small tribe where all members were offspring of a couple of very small individuals... Without being a new species or whatever. Hell, I'm more than 1 foot taller than my GF. And I can assure you we're the same species.

Ever thought about the actors in LOTR that played the hobbits? Those guys had very short stand-ins for some scenes. Those stand-ins were not hobbits or Flores people, they're just normal people talented with a very small body, making them an ideal stand-in for some fantasy movies.

Those guys really want to be on national geographic soon with their "scientific" article on "hobbits"