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New Species Of Human Discovered, Why isn't this a bigger story?

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ShadowMan

Posted: Oct 27 2004, 05:52 PM

Roll away baby. Roll away forever.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/10/27...n.ap/index.html

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In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.

One tiny specimen, an adult female measuring about 3 feet tall, is described as "the most extreme" figure to be included in the extended human family. Certainly, she is the shortest.

This hobbit-sized creature appears to have lived as recently as 18,000 years ago on the island of Flores, a kind of tropical Lost World populated by giant lizards and miniature elephants.

She is the best example of a trove of fragmented bones that account for as many as seven of these primitive individuals. Scientists have named the new species Homo floresiensis, or Flores Man. The specimens' ages range from 95,000 to 12,000 years old.

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Bungalo	Posted: Oct 27 2004, 05:54 PM
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Nicholas Ainsworth	Posted: Oct 27 2004, 05:54 PM
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Citrus	Posted: Oct 27 2004, 05:55 PM
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Neo Hyper Yoshi	Posted: Oct 27 2004, 05:55 PM
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Pikawil

Posted: Oct 27 2004, 05:55 PM

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QUOTE (Bungalo @ Oct 27 2004, 05:54 PM)

Hobbits existed.

LotR existed.

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Neo Hyper Yoshi	Posted: Oct 27 2004, 05:57 PM
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Captain Jeff Silvers	Posted: Oct 27 2004, 05:58 PM
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Yoshimaster	Posted: Oct 27 2004, 10:34 PM
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ShadowMan

Posted: Oct 27 2004, 10:55 PM

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QUOTE (Yoshimaster @ Oct 27 2004, 10:34 PM)

Meh, I'd be more interested if they discovered live dinosaurs. By the way, how do they know this isn't just a dwarf or something?

It's the shortest fully grown human ever found. And it's on an island, so it was probably evolution.

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Anther

Posted: Oct 28 2004, 01:34 AM

Omg where's my tail?!
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QUOTE (Yoshimaster @ Oct 27 2004, 11:34 PM)

Meh, I'd be more interested if they discovered live dinosaurs. By the way, how do they know this isn't just a dwarf or something?

They counted the bone chromosomes -0-

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Draco Icebane	Posted: Oct 28 2004, 09:22 AM
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Klobber	Posted: Oct 28 2004, 10:21 AM
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Draco Icebane

Posted: Oct 28 2004, 10:22 AM

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QUOTE (Kamek @ Oct 28 2004, 08:21 AM)

Nobody tosses a dwarf.

Except Aragorn

LuigiFan	Posted: Oct 28 2004, 02:04 PM
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