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Wednesday, July 9, 2008 |
Photo: "Hobbit" Humans Were Diseased Cretins, Study SuggestsA controversial new study suggests that the fossils of hobbit-like humans found in the cave may have been severely malnourished modern humans that suffered from cretinism, a disease of the thyroid gland. Photograph by Kenneth Garrett/NGS
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