Tiny Contemporary Humans?

Scientists have long thought that, with the extinction of the Neandertals roughly 30,000 years ago, H. sapiens was the only human species left on the planet. The discovery that another human species, vastly different from us, existed up until about 13,000 years ago is a stunning find.

Who were they and how did they get to Flores? There are several hypotheses.

The team of archaeologists that found the hobbit fossils—led by Mike Morwood, Bert Roberts, and Thomas Sutikna—suggested that the hobbits' small stature was the result of a phenomenon known as island dwarfing.

Flores island has been inhabited by some species of human since at least 800,000 years ago. The team that found the fossils leans toward the theory that, once there, this earlier species evolved into H. floresiensis.

Over thousands of years, the theory goes, their bodies adapted to the constraints of island living in the same way that many other mammals' bodies do. With food in short supply, their skeletons grew smaller—a process called island dwarfing.

And because reptiles on islands frequently grow larger, the hobbits may have been both predators and prey. If so, they would have needed to be smarter just to survive—there would be a significant evolutionary advantage to developing a more highly evolved brain.

"Small and smart is definitely better than small and dumb," Hildebolt laughed.

The authors of the braincase study, which was funded by the National Geographic Society, support an alternative hypothesis that was originally presented by the team that found the fossils.

They suggest that H. floresiensis existed as a species before arriving on Flores—that it was already tiny on arrival. It's possible, they say, that there was a small-bodied, small-brained, as yet unknown species of human ancestor (possibly H. floresiensis) that may have left Africa at around the same time as Homo erectus, about 1.8 million years ago.

"We're not dismissing the island-dwarfing hypothesis. It's just that we think the other seems maybe a little stronger," Hildebolt said.

The larger the fish tank the bigger the fish ect....

If island dwarfism is possible. Then the opposite is also possible, Giants roamed the lands in ancient days.

Interesting. I'd never heard of this before..I wish they didn't feel the need to call them "Hobbits" though, as it detracts from the seriousness of the find..
I don't suppose you could source this story, so we could read it for ourselves?

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It's pretty fascinating....

i don't think the opposite can happen. why would the human race branch off to giant sizes, we wouldn't be able to substain our selves, alot more factors then just land mass go into the way we evolve....