So are the 'hobbit' hominids a seperate species of human, or just mutated homo sapiens?

Question

What do you think?

read this on Yahoo news.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080305/tts-science-anthropology-indonesia-hobbi-39e11a7.html

Answer 1

ones name was Bilbo Baggins. he went on a great adventure

Answer 2

They may be both sapien & erectus... strange group. The wrist bones are even more archaic than erectus. Exciting stuff!

http://www.becominghuman.org/news_featur...

The out of Africa replacement crowd are having fits about the latest discoveries that put the lie to their Afrocentric views. I see someone updated Wiki on this... to answer your question, I am unsure what to think about the Hobbit, but I know the Afrocentric group is trying to find some means of discrediting the find. I suspect they fear it will be the straw that breaks their hypothesis.

The lack of iodine is a laughable dodge when talking about an island species.  While that may prove a problem in land locked areas of Europe & Asia... it has never been a problem on a sea coast, because it is found in salt water & all marine animals... even the air.

Answer 3

Accordingly to local folklore, they seem like dwarf cretins, with an iodine deficiency (mutated Homo sapiens)!

Answer 4

They seem to be Homo Sapien Sapien.  Remember that Pigmy's exist and are human.