Were 'hobbit' hominids island dwarfs?

[Judi Lynn]

Were 'hobbit' hominids island dwarfs?
April 16, 2013

Remains of Indonesia's hobbit-sized humans (L) and modern human (R) in Yogyakarta, on November 5, 2004. Japanese scientists on Tuesday waded into a row over so-called "hobbit" hominids whose remains, found on a remote Indonesian island a decade ago, have unleashed one of the fiercest disputes in anthropology.

The most detailed computerised scan of a skull of Homo floresiensis—"Man of Flores"—backs theories that the minute humans were a local product of evolution, they said. Marooned descendants of a hominid called Homo erectus, these people progressively "dwarfed," becoming smaller and smaller to match the availability of food on the island, they suggested. The findings are a knock to rival hypotheses that surfaced after an Australian-Indonesian team unearthed the bizarre remains in a cave in 2003. Dubbed after the wee folk in J.R.R. Tolkien's tale, the "hobbits" were just over a metre (3.25 feet) tall, weighed around 25 kilos (55 pounds) and had a brain roughly the size of a chimp's, our closest primate relative.

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[Sunlei]

1. evolution, same thing and fast with horses, many other animals and plants.