The latest salvo as to whether 18,000-20,000 year old skeletons found in Indonesia in 2004 are a separate species, perhaps derived from Homo erectus, or simply humans with health or genetic problems has now been fired.
A group of anthropologists claims the “Flores Man” people are simply dwarf cretin humans, their small brains and short statures caused by severe iodine deficiency.
Occam’s Razor. This sounds much the simpler explanation to me, and unless the separate species has compelling genetic evidence, all other things are the same. So, it sounds like they’re humans with iodine problems.
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March 05, 2008
Anthropologists say ‘hobbits’ not a separate species
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