homo floresiensis

I can't take this any more! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100928025514.htm I know that Science is necessarily provisional, but I'm getting upset that research on this most interesting of subjects keeps oscillating between Almost Unbelievably Fascinating and Mundane. Just...

Some additional information about the "Hobbit" skeletons discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004 has been published. See this post at the Panda's Thumb for details: http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2010/03/new-hobbit-findings.html It now appears that the evidence supports the...

I watched NOVA last night on PBS and the show (Alien on Earth) was about a potentially new Human species. It was fascinating and worth a watch. "Do the remains of a tiny hobbit-like creature found on the island of Flores belong to a new human species?" The interesting part is that the...

For those of you following the brouhaha, there is more evidence to support the notion that Homo floresiensis are a human species and not microcephalics-- http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1077019 http://news.com.com/Scientists+Island+Hobbit+is+another+species/2100-11395_3-6154593.html

I've been meaning to follow up on the discovery of little people in Indonesia once the Nature article was available. I'm also interested in how the creationists are spinning this discovery. In a previous thread, I predicted that they would (a) attack the dating and (b) claim the "hobbits" were...