More Controversy Surrounding the Flores People!

Doctor Palmer, I found these articles on the Flores people. This is a little ahead of the discussion we are going to have on Friday but I figured that people may want some background pertaining to the subject. The first article follows the story from the very beginning in 1996 when the Flores people's tools were first discovered. It continues to track the inspection of the fossils and the speculation about where the organisms fit into the ancestral timeline or if they are in fact a new branch of humans. The link for this article is: http://txtwriter.com/onscience/Articles/hobbits.html. The second article is about the conlcusion that scientists made as to whether the Flores people are a new species of humans or not. Scientists ultimately concluded that the Flores people are not merely homo sapiens afflicted by a dwarf disease but are in fact an entirely new species of humans. The link for this article is: http://news.mongabay.com/2009/1119-hance_hobbits.html.