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    Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human

    Wellness Skull Is a Sauna of Death

    A Camera Made of Blood and Copper
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    01/21/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    uh huh, whatever.

    But where those hobbits CUTE?
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    I did a photo-positive extrusion study of the skull to produce what Homo floresiensis may have looked like. The result was intriguing:


    [snipurl.com]

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    all this talk of Hominids.... where's a Kzin when ya need one...
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    Image of paragrab paragrab
    01/21/09

    @KhaiJB: Ah, damnit. You just HAD to do it, didn't you? Now I have to go read the Ringworld series again...
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    01/23/09

    @paragrab: just wait till they dig up a Pak....
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    I'm confused by the classification "Human". Obviously Homo floresiensis is a separate species like Homo neanderthalis or Homo Erectus. But aren't all members of Genus Homo, or Hominids, also considered Human-- not just us H. saps? Or is this just diddling with definitions like downgrading Pluto?


    If one of you shaved apes could clear this up for me I'd probably appreciate it.


    Also, I apparently enjoy typing the word Homo.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/20/09

    @Grey_Area: Stupid html tag non-closing hominid!
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    01/20/09

    @Grey_Area: I'm confused by the classification "Human".


    And that, children, is how io9 acquired its new motto.

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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    01/20/09

    @Grey_Area: Homo is a genus name ("humans"). Hominidae is a family name, (The "great apes.").


    These hobbit apes are human. We are true human apes. We are both humans. But all humans are part of the family of great apes--chimps, orangutans, humans, australopithecus, etc.


    Dig?

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/21/09

    @corpore-metal: Dug!
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    In time we will look back upon this study and bow our heads in shame at the denigration of our halfling brothers. Stay strong, hobbitses. Except you, Pippin. You suck.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    next they will dig up dwarves
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    01/20/09

    @gorehound: Without the beards, how would we know?
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    Well, This is now the age of Man. Their time has passed.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    So, Annalee, you're saying we can be absolutely certain that there was a hobbit-like species of hominid that used to coexist with humans? And that we wiped them out with our dinosaur cavalry in a Stone Age race war? That is fucking awesome. THANK YOU, SCIENCE.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    01/20/09

    @Moff: ORCS! RUN!
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    Image of bluewyvern bluewyvern
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    Ahhh! Everybody said it would come to this! Oh, what a slippery slope! At last, hobbits on io9!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/20/09

    @bluewyvern: "...hip deep in Hobbits." So sad.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    They were probably killed by humans for singing so damn much.


    "twas dragons a flying

    and hills go by-ing

    we traveled the moors that day"


    "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!"

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/20/09

    @Grrsn Dn: "Is it cannibalism if we're not TECHNICALLY the same species?"
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    Image of Gann Gann
    01/20/09

    @Grrsn Dn: They also could have died from lung, throat and mouth cancer from all the excessive pipe smoking.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    01/20/09

    In reply to Reseachers Say "Hobbit" People Were Not Human
    Even I could have told you hobbits aren't humans.


    Their stats, racial abilities, and class choices are different.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    01/20/09

    @Mount_Prion®: So true. Too bad you weren't helping these guys out with their species classifications.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    01/20/09

    @Mount_Prion®: So you are suggesting that they died out because of a lack of effective prestige classes?
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    01/20/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: No, they died out because they were sued out of existence by the Tolkien estate.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    01/20/09

    @Skunky: Although really, when you're starting out with only a d6 hit point roll, you're not going to weather litigation very well at all.
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