Researchers says Hobbit was human
- From: "GWhyte" <gwhyte3003@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 04:31:21 -0400
Researchers says Hobbit was human
September 24, 2005
A 3-foot-tall female skeleton discovered in Indonesia last year dubbed "The
Hobbit" and believed to be separate human species may have been a diseased
human.
http://www.physorg.com/news6749.html
The Hobbit's discoverers -- Australian anthropologists Peter Brown, Mike
Morwood and Bert Roberts -- are adamant their Hobbit is an entirely separate
human species, evolving in isolation on a remote island home of Flores,
reported the BBC.
They say the Hobbit was a descendent of some other ancient species and cut
off from the rest of the world, and that the species evolved small in
stature, much like the pygmy elephants.
The bones were discovered at a dig at Liang Bua, a limestone cave deep in
the Flores jungle. Analysis of the 18,000-year-old remains showed the Hobbit
had reached adulthood, according to Indonesian anthropologist Teuku Jacob,
who declared the bones to be those of a modern human.
Jacob and other researchers say the condition the female suffered from was
microcephaly, characterized by a small brain, but it can also be associated
with dwarfism, as well as abnormalities of the face and jaw.
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