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'Hobbits' Not A Different Species, Say Scientists
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 1-3-2008
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 01/13/2008 2:25:04 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
The work, if confirmed, suggests that there could be up to around 100 documented such "hobbits" in the world today, the people who have the mutation that leads to them being normally proportioned but half-sized.Is this the Onion or Scrappleface? We've known about these "hobbits" for a long time. They used to be called midgets. (As opposed to dwarves who are not normally proportioned.)
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01/14/2008 6:51:55 AM PST
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MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: Dustbunny
"I love the show Little People Big World." BTW, Matt was found 'not guilty' of the DUI charge.
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01/14/2008 7:08:10 AM PST
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
Great, have to check and see when the new season starts.
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01/14/2008 7:12:02 AM PST
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Dustbunny
(The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
To: blam
Leprechauns!!!!!
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01/14/2008 10:23:22 AM PST
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ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: sauropod
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01/14/2008 2:24:39 PM PST
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Lil'freeper
(Don't taze me, bro!)
To: blam; All
With water levels rising in the last 18,000 years, a small people would have been better able to use the food resources of a shrinking island.
To: gleeaikin; SunkenCiv
"With water levels rising in the last 18,000 years, a small people would have been better able to use the food resources of a shrinking island." The island of Flores remained an island during the Ice Age too.(From all that I can find)
Something else I've been think about. The Toba eruption supposedly killed almost all humans on earth 75,000 years ago...in fact, the NG special I watched last night said that the only survivors were in East Africa and that these survivors from there repopulated the earth.
It looks like these 'Hobbits' survived the Toba eruption too and aren't part of the East African gene pool of 'modern' humans.(?)
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01/15/2008 10:25:21 AM PST
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
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01/15/2008 10:27:58 AM PST
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dragonblustar
(Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
To: blam
Seems like rising water would kill off the shorties first. ;’)
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01/15/2008 10:42:09 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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