08 May 2009

"HOBBIT" HUMANS AN ENTIRE OTHER SPECIES

Link now to the breaking Yahoo News article about the tiny humans that scientists are calling "another species."

"About a metre (three feet) tall and weighing 30 kilos (65 pounds), the tiny, tool-making hunters may have roamed the remote island as recently as 8,000 years ago. Their fossils are about 18,000 years old.
Many scientists have said Homo floresiensis, as the creature is now formally known, was a prehistoric human stunted by natural selection over millennia through a process called insular dwarfing."


---- Marlowe Hood