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"Hobbits" Live!
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11-10-2007 2:32 PM
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homo erectus
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Marcariel
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Well sure ... giants are real ... why not hobbits!
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a7ed714-6d0e-449e-9960-3e5acfa67370/DB2D3428-1905-46C7-8050-717D4D028384/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://time-blog.com/eye_on_science/2007/09/new_information_on_hobbits.html" href="http://time-blog.com/eye_on_science/2007/09/new_information_on_hobbits.html" style="font-size: 11px;">time-blog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://time-blog.com/eye_on_science/2007/09/new_information_on_hobbits.html">Not Hobbits, really, but "hobbits," a race of diminutive humans whose bones were uncovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004. Their miniature stature was explained by a phenomenon known as "<A href="http://www.amnh.org/science/papers/dwarf_buffalo.php">island dwarfing</A>," in which large mammals tend to get smaller when they live on isolated islands (modern examples include water buffalo and elephants—so that wasn't particularly exciting.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://time-blog.com/eye_on_science/2007/09/new_information_on_hobbits.html">the find was sensational, because while the remains were only about 13,000 years old, they had characteristics of <A href="http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/erec.html">Homo erectus</A>—a distant human ancestor that was thought to have disappeared at least half a million years ago. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://time-blog.com/eye_on_science/2007/09/new_information_on_hobbits.html">an international team of scientists, led by the Smithsonian Institution, has analyzed the wrist bones of the tiny creatures, and says that they look nothing like those of modern humans, or even of Neanderthals, but rather resemble the wristbones of African apes and our earliest human ancestors--earlier, even than <EM>Homo erectus</EM>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DB2D3428-1905-46C7-8050-717D4D028384/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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