Homo floresiensis ("Man of Flores") is a newly described species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and recent survival, thought to have been contemporaneous with modern humans (Homo sapiens) on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Seven skeletons and associated stone tools were discovered on Flores in 2003.Flores has been described (in the journal Nature) as "a kind of Lost World", where archaic animals, elsewhere long extinct, had evolved into giant and dwarf forms through allopatric speciation. The island had dwarf elephants (a species of Stegodon, the recent ancestor of the Indian Elephant) and giant lizards akin to the Komodo dragon, as well as H. floresiensis, which can be considered a species of dwarf human. The discoverers have called members of the diminutive species hobbits, after J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional race of roughly the same height. In the island's mythology there were common references to Ebu Gogo a small furry man.
I won't make any comparisons between "small furry creatures with indistinguishable genders" and certain famous lefties.