How HOBBIT became human

Researchers now believe that the fossils' little primordial features, which other scientists previously reckoned belonged to a more primitive species, could in fact be humans affected by a well known and documented medical condition.

They added that, "this extreme form of cretinism is the result of severe iodine deficiency in pregnancy in combination with a number of other environmental factors."

Although majority of the people who've taken a glance at the fossils have been trying to understand it from an evolutionary perspective, these two propose that this was an "environmentally caused problem."

Story Untellers: Dr Peter Obendorf and Dr Ben Kefford, from RMIT's School of Applied Sciences
Hobbits declared human

Storytellers : Friends of Darwin Web Site
Let's not call them Hobbits