Are hobbits hiding in human family tree?
Most of the fights have been over whether hobbits were truly a distinct species given their small size or just diseased humans, or whether creatures with their small brains could have used tools. But the latest skirmish appears in the current Journal of Human Evolution, where John Trueman of the Australian National University (ANU) drags the puny pre-human species which stood less than four feet tall and went extinct more than 12,000 years ago into a fight over whether researchers should depict humanity's origins as a family tree. Ref. Source 9
Origins of Indonesian Hobbits finally revealed
The most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, has found that they most likely evolved from an ancestor in Africa and not from Homo erectus as has been widely believed. Ref. Source 5l.