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Humans vs Hobbits 
Steven Pinker, Cognitive Scientist | @sapinker
In prehistoric times, there was a mysterious and diminutive species, Homo floresiensis, walking on the islands of Indonesia. When discovered, scientists gave them the nickname of Hobbits after J R R Tolkien’s fictional, diminutive humanoid race that walked the lands of Middle Earth. Scientists, when they discovered the Homo floresiensis, concluded that they used to live around 11,000 years ago. But last month they