NYT: Dwarf Species (Hobbit) Might Have Been Human Ancestor, Scientists Say

Dwarf Species Might Have Been Human Ancestor, Scientists Say
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: March 3, 2005
Filed at 6:36 p.m. ET


Scientists working with powerful imaging computers say the spectacular "Hobbit" fossil recently discovered in Indonesia had distinctive brain features that could justify its classification as a separate -- and tiny -- human ancestor.

The new report, published Thursday in the online journal Science Express, seems to support the idea of a sophisticated human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man proliferated.

The new research produced a computer-generated model that compared surface impressions on the inside of the fossil skull with brain casts of modern and ancient humans, as well as chimps and other primates.

The scientists said the model shows that the 3-foot specimen, nicknamed Hobbit, had a brain unlike anything they had seen before in the human lineage. The brain is chimplike in size, about 417 cubic centimeters.

Yet the Hobbit's brain shared wrinkled surface features with the much larger brains of both modern humans and Homo erectus, a tool-making ancestor that lived in southeast Asia more than 1 million years ago. Some of those brain features are consistent with higher cognitive traits....


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Hobbit-Brain.html

eom

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

They will say giants obviously includes dwarfs too. It is simple, really, once you know the trick.

In which case, their god (small 'g' here, intentionally) lies to his followers to keep them dumb.

In which case, FUCK THEIR GOD.

(Sorry. I'm done being respectful and nice. Their god doesn't deserve to be followed if it behaves this way.)

it's just so interesting to me.

I mean, come on, "chimplike"? He claims he is from Texas.