Re: Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton

From: MrPepper11 (MrPepper11_at_go.com)
Date: 10/29/04


Date: 29 Oct 2004 13:00:43 -0700

jackson <jackson-1@laredo.com> wrote in message news:<d3k2o0d8nha43350jajj3pg13p18v3ti86@4ax.com>...
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:01:53 +1000, "Clayton <Insert Pop Culture Pun
> Here>" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonyemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >"MrPepper11" <MrPepper11@go.com> wrote in message
> >news:57cfd534.0410270938.209bfc3e@posting.google.com...
> >> October 27, 2004
> >> Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton
> >> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> >
> >They just had a story about this on the Channel 10 news....with the
> >reporter, not just once but several times claiming this find "shatters the
> >theory of evolution!!!"
> >
> >Is it too much to ask a reporter on a science show to have at least an
> >eighth grade education in science?
>
> headlines seen:
>
> Discovery Shakes Up Understanding of Human Evolution
> New species of humans found
> New human species is so tiny, so recent, it stuns scientists
> Scientists discover 'real-life hobbit'
> Good hair day for hobbit hunters
> Bones offer evidence of little people
> Get ready for more new humans
> Flight of the little hairy people
> A lost cousin in a lost world
> Archaeologists discover real home of the human hobbit
> Scientists unearth species of hobbit-sized ancestors
> The 1m-tall 'hobbit' that rewrites the history of mankind
> 'Hobbit' joins human family
> Lost Tribe of Little People
> Hobbit-sized human found
> Mini-human find
> Tiny fossil upends history of evolution
> Dwarf Skeleton Puzzles Scientists
> Tiny human find turns palaeontology on its head
> Mystery hobbit man lived alongside humans
> etc. etc.

It's utterly fascinating that H. floresiensis has now shed light on
the wonderful Ebu Gogo legend (watch for a movie about them!).

Perhaps it's only a matter of time before we find evidence of
leprechauns and the Yowies. And Bigfoot, and the Yeti... (without the
furry suit).



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