Thursday, October 28, 2004

Shirt-tail relatives...

Scientists have discovered a miniature human species that existed on some remote Indonesian islands for a while. Seems like big news for the anthropology world, and possibly for fans of hobbits...

dwarf cavewoman

The big news is that this species existed relatively recently (less than 20,000 years ago):
It smashes the long-cherished scientific belief that our species, Homo sapiens, systematically crowded out other upright-walking human cousins beginning 160,000 years ago and that we've had Earth to ourselves for tens of thousands of years.
Pretty exciting! The scientists can barely decide what to think!

(via boingboing)

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