Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Tiny People Are Real!
OK, first you have to realize that once there was a paper published by a Japanese scientist in the Annals of Improbable Research (www.improbable.com) arguing that tiny, tiny people exist alongside their large human counterparts.
And now comes an article in today's New York Times revealing that, while not microscopic, pretty darn small people have been discovered on a tropical island.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/science/28TINYcnd.html?hp&ex=1098936000&en=2774fc8a6fca056d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Here is the start of the story--
October 27, 2004
Scientists Find Skeletons of Miniature PeopleBy NICHOLAS WADE
nce upon a time, but not so long ago, in a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia, there lived a race of little people, whose adults stood just three and a half feet high. Despite their stature, they were mighty hunters. They made stone tools with which they speared giant rats, clubbed sleeping dragons, and hunted the packs of pygmy elephants that roamed their lost world.
Strangest of all, this is no fable. Skeletons of these miniature people have been excavated from a limestone cave on Flores, an island 370 miles east of Bali, by a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists. Reporting their find in today's issue of Nature, they assign the people to a new human species, Homo floresiensis.
And now comes an article in today's New York Times revealing that, while not microscopic, pretty darn small people have been discovered on a tropical island.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/science/28TINYcnd.html?hp&ex=1098936000&en=2774fc8a6fca056d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Here is the start of the story--
October 27, 2004
Scientists Find Skeletons of Miniature PeopleBy NICHOLAS WADE
nce upon a time, but not so long ago, in a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia, there lived a race of little people, whose adults stood just three and a half feet high. Despite their stature, they were mighty hunters. They made stone tools with which they speared giant rats, clubbed sleeping dragons, and hunted the packs of pygmy elephants that roamed their lost world.
Strangest of all, this is no fable. Skeletons of these miniature people have been excavated from a limestone cave on Flores, an island 370 miles east of Bali, by a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists. Reporting their find in today's issue of Nature, they assign the people to a new human species, Homo floresiensis.
