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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: New Hobbit fossils 700,000 years old
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 09:30:59 -0500
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More ancient Hobbit fossils have been found on the same island, and they 
were a couple inches shorter than the more modern Hobbits on the island 
of Flores.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fossils-suggest-early-human-hobbits-ancestors-even-smaller-rcna165493

The island is 14,000 sq km in area.  The island has supported a 
population of "pygmy" modern humans that are on average 4 inches shorter 
than the average Indonesian, but still average over 16 inches taller 
than the Hobbits.  You can have a larger population of smaller 
individuals, and my guess is that, that has driven the decrease in size 
of Homo on that island.

Ron Okimoto