More on Homo floresiensis

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Pharyngula has a good summary article and Nature has opened several articles for free viewing, including this slightly irritating essay about how it means all the crazy crap in the world might be true. Yeah, I'm way more likely now to believe that there are invisible telepathic Bigfoots on Mount Shasta.

...Commenter "DarkSyde" on Pharyngula mentions the hoax question:

On the hoax question; while this appears legit, there is no way to know yet. It could be a clever hoax. But there’s plenty of time to figure that out and no one is making even a ‘provisional’ final judgment on authenticity at this time. Paleoanthorpologists are as skeptical as any other group of scientists if not more so considering Piltdown, and I suspect that the first order of business on the mind’s of reviewers will be to establish that.

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Like Zimmer said, it's fun to think that maybe the island-dwarfism phenomenon extends to hominids.
Oh, I guess they mention it in the pharyngula article too. Well then!
At least floresiensis hasn't got unusually large eyes, or else RACIAL MEMORY OF GREYS OMG OMG.