jlang wrote:
] Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human
] that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors
] were colonising the world.
]
] The new species - dubbed "the Hobbit" due to its small size -
] lived on Flores island until at least 12,000 years ago.

Who is the idiot that dubbed it "the Hobbit." I didn't see that in the articles on the subject that I read yesterday. What an awful world we live in where science takes gay-ass fairy movies and mines their vacuous depths for serious scientific monikers.

RE: 'Hobbit' joins human family tree