New article about "hobbits"

[diana_hawthorne]

Long Feet Offer Clues to Mystery of Small Hominid
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: May 7, 2009
An analysis is seen to bolster the view that the “hobbits” formed a population distinct from modern humans.

The extinct hominids commonly known as hobbits may have been small of body and brain, but their feet were exceptionally long, and they were flat.

Comments

I think it's all just hype

[jen92373]

I still don't buy it. There is just not enough evidence to support calling these remains a subspecies of human in the handful of individuals that we have. The feet are interesting, but these bones are still not displaying enough variation from any known species or subspecies to prove that they are not simply diseased in some way. If you look at conditions that can occur in modern populations, it's easy to see why at this point a simply deformity is still the best answer.