[VadeRetro]

I thought maybe he was talking about floriensis, but it's hard to be sure. The likeliest scenario is it's a typical island dwarf-form off of H. erectus. (The first erectus fossil ever found was "Java Man," a few islands over.) Selection pressures for dwarfism often exist on small islands. Thus, in one instance, a "dwarf mammoth" species.

[Coyoteman]

I thought maybe he was talking about floriensis, but it's hard to be sure. The likeliest scenario is it's a typical island dwarf-form off of H. erectus. (The first erectus fossil ever found was "Java Man," a few islands over.) Selection pressures for dwarfism often exist on small islands. Thus, in one instance, a "dwarf mammoth" species.

You mean (gasp) that evolution didn't keep on making people bigger, stronger, smarter, etc.? You mean, some actually had to adapt to local conditions by getting smaller and more efficient, and, in this case, may even have become a different species?

Maybe there's something to this science stuff after all!