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Did you know that hobbits are, or more properly, were real? I totally didn't know this!
A sub-category of us, the homo florensiensis, lived on an island in Indonesia about 13,000 years ago. Not suprisingly, though, this island is a major producer of fossils of Dwarf Elephants and giant lizards. This suggests that "island dwarfing" also occurs within aspects of humans. It's believed these forensiensis, or "hobbits" as the finders call them, are derived from genus homos, just as we are. They apparently became marrooned there, perhaps after Indonesia broke away from Asia, and generation after generation, the people just got shorter. The fossil remains found are only about a metre tall!
Holy Cow!
A sub-category of us, the homo florensiensis, lived on an island in Indonesia about 13,000 years ago. Not suprisingly, though, this island is a major producer of fossils of Dwarf Elephants and giant lizards. This suggests that "island dwarfing" also occurs within aspects of humans. It's believed these forensiensis, or "hobbits" as the finders call them, are derived from genus homos, just as we are. They apparently became marrooned there, perhaps after Indonesia broke away from Asia, and generation after generation, the people just got shorter. The fossil remains found are only about a metre tall!
Holy Cow!