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10-29-2004, 10:14 PM

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ost_uid0="Virtual Fighter"]ppfft, thats nothing.

in africa, there was and STILL IS a group of humans called "pikmies" who are just three foot tall. (all of them, even the old people) the run realy, really fast and needed to get small to addapt to their enviornment for some reason.

point of stry, they're really small, and still live.

(notice resenblance between word pikmies and pikmen, see, nintendo knows whats up)[/quote]
Actually, they're called "pygmies," not "pikmies." And it's not a single isolated tribe, they're rather spread out across not only the continent of africa, but the world (ie: midgets (or whatever the socially proper terminology is)). Colonies of pygmies are not terribly common elsewhere however (although there was once a community of midgets in New Jersey, but that's eluding the point.)

The point is, the people you attempted to correctly refer to are still homo sapiens sapiens, human beings, just with different physical characteristics (just like africans are typically taller and stronger than caucasians, asians typically smaller, etc).

The fossils found of the "hobbit" homo floresiensis are not of a human at all, but of a lesser evolved version of humans, or maybe not even related to humans at all. The MSNBC article suggests that the species may not even be able to be classified as homo-, but as something else....possibly an offshoot of our earliest recorded ancestors.

So, the discovery of a non-human race of "dwarves" is indeed quite a major discovery, and not "nothing" as compared to the physical characteristics of a type of existing human being.

And please, enough with the pink text....you're not Dan Hibiki

10-29-2004, 10:14 PM	#16
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