http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article318883.ece
I hate LotR
Couldn’t they just be the bones of children?
There’s differences between the bone structure of adults and children.
It isn’t new, The is a Full hour Lengh Program, about this, TD Might of seen it, But I have:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/hobbit_prog_summary.shtml
The problem with this branch of anthropology is that every time someone finds something ,they make a huge deal of it and think its a new species intimately related to humans when in all honesty, we have no clue really how it fits into the greater scheme of things.
This thread reminds me of this article.
From the article:
Alexander Guryev says that researchers have no whole centaur skeletons but lots of upper and lower parts of centaurs skeletons.
Reminds me of a quote from (I think) one of the Science of Discworld books, which mentions something being the closest relative of humans, not that that says much, since the closest relative of the elephant is about the size and shape of a rabbit.
My anthro professor mentioned a similar problem. He spoke of some anthropologists who love to classify everything as a new species when the fossils are only just slightly different. The problem here, of course, is that species are separated now pretty much solely by genetics (right?), and there’s no way to know if these various fossil species were genetically different enough to be classified as separate species.
What, you hadn’t heard about this before now? We heard about it ages ago.
I’m betting they’re gnomes rather than hobbits.
O_O
Yeah, I posted this a long long time ago, back when I was fairly frequent.
The show showed a few interviews with villagers on another island who claim to have killed off the last of these ‘hobbits’ fairly recently, after they stole one of their babies. The people, they said, were living in a volcano, and small pottery was found where they claimed they had killed them.
Bones prove the existence of ‘hobbits’
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 12 October 2005
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there was already a thread on this Steve noob
On an unrelated note I think it would have been cool to watch Steve explode.
:moogle: screw hobbits! when are thye discover that hot elve woman exist?
yes, but it was as-of-yet unconfirmed.
I’ve seen more of the internet, faster than you.
But seriously, this is 3 minutes old why are you posting it
It could just have been an island of midgets. Or erect standing monkeys.
Haha, ‘erect.’
I mean, yay hobbits. Or something.
They tell you NOW that the chinese invented noodles? I thought that was clear for decades now