S.African, US scientists find more 'hobbits' in Pacific

" JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A team of scientists have discovered fossils of an extinct hobbit-like people on a Pacific Ocean island where they lived up to 3,000 years ago, a South African university has reported.
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The former island cave inhabitants, some "as small as just over a metre", shared features with the controversial Homo floresiensis specimens discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004, said a statement from Johannesburg's Witwatersrand University (Wits) on Tuesday."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080312/sc_afp/safricascienceanthropologyhobbit

I know Mike Kremer posted on this topic earlier but I couldn't find it so I posted anew. Will these turn out to be a new race of humans, or are they just "stunted" as some researchers want us to believe?


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