Homo floriensis?

Is the hobbit a new human species or nothing more than a modern human with a crippling deformity? On the far-flung island of Flores, in ... all » the Indonesian archipelago, a team of archaeologists happened upon a tiny 18,000-year old skeleton. It was no more than a metre tall. They assumed they have found the remains of a young girl. But other signs suggested she was in fact much older. They had discovered one of the smallest human adults ever found (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6994801023942378577&hl=en)

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