Naresh Kumar Vaid, Director , Vaids ICS

देखो ! बुत तराशी का ये हमें सिला मिला जिसको हमने बुत समझा वो काफिर खुदा निकला

Hobbit is the popular name of Homo floresiensis , the first fossils of which were discovered in Flore, Indonesia in 2003 and first described in 2004. Short stature (about 3ft), microcephaly , brain of the size of an orange (resembling apes), foot to thigh bone ratio of 70% (compared to 50% in modern man) show quite resemblance with Lucy ( Australopithecus afarensis ). Previously it was postulated that it must have descended from Lucy discovered in 1974 that is dated 3.2 million years. However, a study published in the Journal of Human Evolution authored by Debbie Argue et al . claim Homo habilis , that appeared around 2.3 million years ago to be its ancestor. The stone tools discovered from the site date over 1.1 million years old while Hobbits lived upto 17,000 thousand years ago. The authors also claim that Hobbits might have been swayed away to the Flores from Africa, almost half the world away, by some tsunami or a similar event. The biological features of Hobbits and their simi