new relatives

Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:51:54 -0700

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(12,000 years ago? Shee-it! Maybe it was the
Aurstralian dwarf-tossing what killed 'em.)

http://tinyurl.com/44rw7

Scientists in Australia have found a new species
of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000
years ago on an Indonesian island in a discovery
that adds another piece to the complex puzzle of
human evolution.

The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found
in a cave on the island of Flores, is of an adult
female that was a meter (3 feet) tall, had a
chimpanzee-sized brain and was substantially
different from modern humans...

The scientists suspect the new species became
extinct after a massive volcanic eruption on the
island about 12,000 years ago.

Brown and his colleagues have found the remains
of seven other dwarf individuals at the same site
since the first find...

--
"It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody
running around just covered with syphilis?
And then it was destroyed by the volcano."
--Joan Collins

Correspondent:: Cardinal Vertigo
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:25:20 GMT

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nu-monet v7.0 wrote:

> Brown and his colleagues have found the remains
> of seven other dwarf individuals at the same site
> since the first find...

I liked the hobbit parallel CNN.com drew.