Scientists Hope To Settle "Hobbit" Debate

Several readers wrote in with news of the debate around the identity of an ancient woman whose diminutive skeleton was found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004. Fox News reports that Australian scientists have discovered a subterranean chamber that may contain DNA proof that will settle the question of whether "the Hobbit," as the specimen is called, actually is a representative of a new branch of the human family, or not. The find's discoverers named the putative new race Homo floresiensis. Others in the anthropological field question this identification, arguing that the meter-tall Hobbit was a modern human who had something wrong with her. In a paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, with one of the original discovery team as co-author, researchers say they have compared the Hobbit's skull to those of modern humans with various ailments such as microcephaly, and that the Hobbit is different.

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creation i tells you

[timmarhy]

no doubt some fucking ass will come on here and say this is yet more proof that god mad man as is, that we were never monkeys, because we are yet to discover a few pieces of the puzzle. they will also say how it's "just a theory" even though gravity is just a theory as well (wish some of them would test the theory of gravity by jumping off some cliffs, ridding us of their stupidity)