No, this isn’t about the travails of Peter Jackson’s prequel.
A new paper was just released on the so-called Homo floresiensis, popularly referred to as the “hobbit” that has been touted as a new species of human. This study (scroll down again) argues that the hobbit isn’t a new human species at all, but an iodine-deficient human.
All this biochemistry nonsense! I don’t know why these scientists just won’t get around to looking for alien DNA as the solution!
Hello, Mike! Sorry I’m off topic but I heard that you’re writing a new book that will be called “The Myth That Is True”. I read somewhere that we can read the first draft but I can’t seem to find it. Can you help?
yes – email me about this.
Done!
Actuallly, nicknaming them “Hobbits” might be appropriate considering that they lived in one of the only places in the world occupied by 10 foot long, carnivorous “dragons” (actually the Komodo Monitor). Next to the Hobbits diminutive size, these “dragons” would indeed seem fearsome, and undoubtedly preyed on the slower, less careful ones.