Dear Professor Palmer: I found this article about the debate on the Flores people. The article briefly reviews the competing sides' views on the issue, particularly focusing on the idea that the Flores people had a disorder that made them small. The debate has intensified with the discovery of other small people fossils on the island of Palau in the Western Caroline Islands of Micronesia. This discovery raises the question of whether the Flores people were, in fact, a distinct species (known as Homo floresiensis) or if they were simply Homo sapiens adapted to their life on an island with limited resources.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18litt.html
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