THEY FOUND HOBBITS!
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provoke_me
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yes!
so cool! thanks for the link!
so cool! thanks for the link!
darthfoley
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Nice hobbits...
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Nice hobbits...
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When I saw this on the news I thought of that Simpsons episode where the new Mall people bury the fake angel bones as a promotion for the Mall.
I said to my husband \"I bet you Peter Jackson set this all up as promotion for The Hobbit\".
Seriously though, why are they getting all blown away by a little human? We have little humans now, why not back then? *scratches her head*
I said to my husband \"I bet you Peter Jackson set this all up as promotion for The Hobbit\".
Seriously though, why are they getting all blown away by a little human? We have little humans now, why not back then? *scratches her head*
darthfoley
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Because this is an entirely new species.
Homo floresiensis
\'Little humans\' are still homo sapiens. These new discoveries appear to be an all new branch of the evolutionary tree.
Homo floresiensis
\'Little humans\' are still homo sapiens. These new discoveries appear to be an all new branch of the evolutionary tree.
Drake Farstrider
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Hey thanks for sharing the link. It will be interesting to see if they can get any DNA samples and see ifthey are that different from us.
Because the little humans we have now is because of a genetic disorder (forgive me for using these words, they sound awful, albeit true).
The ones they found are not sapiens, as sapiens was around during the same period, they are floriensis, a different species. (like domestic housecats and tigers for instance
)kittykat23uk
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I was reading about this on the bbc website as well. Very interesting stuff!
Hey that\'s really cool, and it fits right in with what I\'m studying in biologie It\'d be amazing to find another human species still living on the planet :flip:
@sturm: but dosn\'t fiction come from real facts in the start, so maybe the word hobbit was actually used years ago to refer to those Homo floresiensis.
It\'d be amazing to find another human species still living on the planet :flip:@sturm: but dosn\'t fiction come from real facts in the start, so maybe the word hobbit was actually used years ago to refer to those Homo floresiensis.
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Nomadikk
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Well, I\'ve never ran into any \"little people\" that looked like this:
A male Homo floresiensis returns from the hunt. Found on the island of Flores in Indonesia, these ancient humans grew no taller than a three-year-old modern-human child. Their small size led scientists to nickname the species \"hobbits,\" after the tiny Lord of the Rings characters. The first such individual found was female. Since then at least seven individuals have been found, including males.
The archaeological find will be featured in a National Geographic Channel program to air in early 2005.
Illustration by Peter Schouten
A male Homo floresiensis returns from the hunt. Found on the island of Flores in Indonesia, these ancient humans grew no taller than a three-year-old modern-human child. Their small size led scientists to nickname the species \"hobbits,\" after the tiny Lord of the Rings characters. The first such individual found was female. Since then at least seven individuals have been found, including males.
The archaeological find will be featured in a National Geographic Channel program to air in early 2005.
Illustration by Peter Schouten
Well, it\'s cool because now we\'re starting to think that folklore creatures weren\'t so much fiction as they are fact. Hobbits or leprechauns really could have been thought up by these creatures. So it opens up the whole fantasy world to new discoveries just waiting to be found. Granted i\'m 99.99% sure we aint gunna be finding dragon skeletons or anything... but gosh, these guys live ONLY 800 years ago! Their bones aren\'t even fossilied. Amazing.
No Such Agency
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You can\'t reason someone out of a position they didn\'t reason themselves into, my friend. Remember a lot of anti-evolution types actually believe fossils are put there by God/Satan to test our faith - \"Do you believe your lying eyes, or this book?\"
freakinacage
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don\'t get me started on THAT old chestnut. there used to be a quite pretty girl that used to fancy me. i was gonna ask her out but after having got to know her, she told me that she didn\'t believe in evolution. i couldn\'t go out with someone like that.
