Tiny human ancestor found
p2pnet.net OT News:- Fossil skeletons of a “hobbit-like species of human that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child” have been found by Australian and Indonesian researchers.
“The tiny humans, who had skulls about the size of grapefruits, lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia as recently as 13,000 years ago,” says National Geographic News.
The remains were found in a cave on Flores, an island midway between Asia and Australia.
The skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 meter (3.3′) tall, weighed about 25 kilograms (55 pounds), and was around 30 years old at the time of her death 18,000 years ago, says the story, going on:
“Despite its smaller body size, smaller brain, and mixture of primitive and advanced anatomical features, the new species falls firmly within the genus Homo. The researchers speculate that the hobbit and her peers evolved from a normal-size, island-hopping Homo erectus population that reached Flores around 840,000 years ago.”
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See:-
advanced anatomical features – “Hobbit” Discovered: Tiny Human Ancestor Found in Asia, National Geographic, October 27, 2004
October 27th, 2004 at 11:57 pm
I have to laugh every time I read something like this.
People have spent their entire lives trying to disprove God exists…….and even Darwin himself said that his own studies were NOT possible but people liked his older ideas so much that they didn’t care that he’d admitted he was wrong about evolution…. *sighs*
Just my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_
October 28th, 2004 at 2:23 am
they found someting like this before but lost it. http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Pedro.html has the story on the mummy found in 1932.
October 28th, 2004 at 7:15 am
And they were file sharing????
October 29th, 2004 at 4:16 am
The scientific methodolody cannot prove or disprove God.
Science studies facts, so unless there are god parts that
can be analysed science can say nothing about it.
It’s sad lots of people think that some scientific theories are trying
to “disprove” religion because it means people do not understand science.
Science studies what is and creates theories to explain what is observed.
Why does people try to bring religion into it?
Believe what you will, but science concerns itself with facts.
Beliefs are not facts, thus science says nothing about them.
March 4th, 2005 at 3:43 pm
no but somehow they caused the music cartel and hollywood to lose money!!!!