Hobbits may belong on branch of Humanity's tree

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/hobbits/

The papers are the latest salvos in a battle that’s raged since 2003, when anthropologists found one semi-complete skeleton and fragments of six others in an Indonesian island cave. The skeletons appeared to come from hominids who stood just three feet tall and were anatomically distinct from H. sapiens.

Anthropologists who believed the fossils represented a new species named it after its home island of Flores, where local folk tales described a race of diminutive jungle dwellers. They hypothesized a direct-line descent from H. erectus, the last common ancestor of all human species, who left Africa 2.5 million years ago.

Hmm, so maybe that finally explains why I have hair on my toes?