Hobbit is back on the menu!

Galvasean

New studies on the 'Hobbit' (Homo floriesensis) shows that they were in fact a seperate species, as opposed to inbred cretins as had been suggested before.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090123-hobbit-skull.html




(left to right: human skull, Hobbit skull fragment, Hobbit skull cast)

I think there is always going to be some debate on this - personally I do feel that they were a separate species (I watched a documentary on this that displayed that they had a different brain structure to us - despite that fact that it was significantly smaller (around 300-400 cc's I think) they would still have been a sentient species due to part of their brain being abnormally large).

I think that it's similar to the old debate about Neanderthals, even though it's now largely accepted that they were a separate species to us, there are still those that claim they were simply a subspecies of Sapiens.