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# Little Island Folk
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2677/
- Published: 2005-10-13T16:20:26.000Z
- Updated: 2005-10-13T16:20:26.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: History, #wpChunk

I don't know if this is an effort by dogmatic Darwinists to find a missing link, but it's highly interesting. Either way, I've always maintained that little can have souls, hence the concerns about [dwarf tossing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf%5Ftossing?ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> New discoveries in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, notably another jawbone, appear to give additional support to the idea that a separate species of little people new to science and now extinct lived there as recently as 12,000 years ago.

> Flores, Indonesia But a vigorous minority of skeptical scientists were unmoved by the new findings. They contend that the skeletal remains are more likely to be deformed modern human beings, not a distinct species. . .

> "I don't think anything is changed with this paper," Robert D. Martin, a biological anthropologist and provost at the Field Museum in Chicago, said in a telephone interview, referring to the latest Nature report. "I feel very strongly that these people are glossing over the problems with this interpretation."

> In Dr. Martin's view, in which he is joined by several prominent scientists, the more likely explanation for the small stature is, in part, a phenomenon known as island dwarfing. People and animals living in isolation for many generations tend to evolve smaller bodies, their growth constrained by limited resources.

[*NYT* Link](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/12/international/asia/12island.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).