Sentences with phrase «hobbit people»

Nicknamed hobbit people, Homo floresiensis «caught the field off guard — they were the black swan of paleoanthropology,» says Bill Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York.

Physical anthropologist William Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York is now studying the remains of these hobbit people.

That is the message from a strange Indonesian fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of the human family: Homo floresiensis, the hobbit people.

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His panic The Hobbit, the intelligent apes from the Planet of the Apes, and even God are all creatures created from people's imaginations, as far as we can tell.

Hobbits have a tradition that they give other people gifts on their birthday — and in that tradition I present you with a cake recipe for my upcoming birthday (on Sunday).

People have this image of Wenger liking to sit on top his cash reserves like the dragon out the hobbit, it's absolutely laughable.

Called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the «hobbit» people, this species found in Indonesia rewrites the scientific story of how humans migrated out of Africa and came to populate the whole world.

By 35,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have had the planet to itself, with the possible exception of an isolated population of H. floresiensis — the «hobbit» people of Southeast Asia — and another newly discovered hominid species in China.

Homo Floresiensis, «Hobbit» people, found on the Indonesian island of Flores.

Because people must have traveled across the islands of Southeast Asia to get to Australia, the date suggests humans were moving through Indonesia at the same time as Homo floresiensis, the tiny extinct human nicknamed «the hobbit,» was living on the island of Flores; the last date for that species is 60,000 years ago, although so far there's no evidence of encounters between humans and hobbits.

The skeletal remains belonged to an ancient people with tiny brains, and so short that they have been nicknamed «hobbits».

Since then, however, the hobbit team has found fragments from nine different people on the island of Flores, leading them to believe even more strongly in their theory of insular dwarfism.

Obviously, people suggested names from Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the Star Wars universe, and characters from Harry Potter.

People have been digging up human fossils for more than 150 years, and yet the past decade alone has seen a string of spectacular discoveries, from fossils that push back hominin origins millions of years to a separate species of Hobbit - sized hominins who were alive just 17,000 years ago.

It should have had at least thirty specimens for comparison, including some aboriginal peoples (pigmies) living in the region where the hobbit was found; and (4) since the one hobbit skull available for study was an adult, the study should not have had five microcephalic children among the nine microcephalics used for comparison (Science, 2 February 2007, p. 583).

As when talking to people about the Hobbit and HFR, the vast majority of people even some of the really geeky ones had no idea about HFR.

The young Hobbit Goben must join forces with their neighbor giants, the humans, to free his people and vanquish their enemies.

Now considering the mixed reaction from Critics and people alike on the Hobbit Part 1, many people were skeptical on how part 2 would hold up, and considering this one has a run time of nearly 3 hours, plus this being the live action theatrical debut of arguably one of the most well known fantasy villains, Smaug, there was a lot of reason to be skeptical.

Or is it under the same level that Hobbit Part 1 is to a lot of people?

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Vlad the Impaler (Luke Evans, «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug») is a prince with a gory past here, now settled down and doing his best to protect his family and the people of Transylvania from bullying Turkish forces.

It's a psychological horror FMV game, starring Adam Brown (The Hobbit) and Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful), with writing by people who worked on The Witcher, SOMA, and Broken Sword.

And then, with still an hour to go in the panel, they move on to what people most wanted to hear about: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

Let me say right up front that I quite enjoyed «The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,» but I don't expect most other people will.

I actually liked the first Hobbit film more than alot of people because of how much it took its time.

Yes, just as people emerge from the cinemas from the first screenings of The Hobbit, which started in December, they have been greeted by the news that Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien's novel is set to last even longer when it's released on Extended Edition DVD and Blu - ray this year.

«The Peoples and Denizens of Middle - Earth», «Realms of the Third Age: From Bag End to Goblin Town» and «The Songs of The Hobbit».

The final film in Jackson's short - person - with - big - feet trilogy, the film is bringing to a conclusion «The Hobbit» trilogy with Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves.

Bilbo: There are moments which can change a person for all time, and I suddenly wondered if I would ever see my snug hobbit - hole again.

The second of the three Hobbit films actually begins with a scene which takes place before the start of the previous film, possibly as some sort of joke at the expense of people who think these movies are already needlessly long.

This is unfortunate, because «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» is quite entertaining despite the lopsidedness of the battles and needless «Clone Wars» - type political drama that director Peter Jackson foists upon the good people of Lake - town.

The real story begins with the pair in bucolic Hobbiton, a city full of residing hobbits, or «little people» as they are also referred to.

Fellow hobbits Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) remain in the custody of a group of ancient, walking trees, while wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), elfin archer Legolas (Orlando Bloom), belligerent dwarf Gimli (John Rhys - Davies) and dispossessed king Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), the rightful ruler of Gondor, are recovering in Rohan, where King Theoden (Bernard Hill) has just led his people to victory against Mordor's army of mutants, beasts and monsters at Helm's Deep.

The Germans» solution was to create a hobbit of a car that can carry two persons and their luggage and be extremely nimble in a crowded city.

Polly, one of my favorite people in the library world, told me that since I liked Narnia and The Hobbit, I really ought to pick up Alanna: The First Adventure.

What do people who don't like New Zealand or hobbits read?

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Meaning, from New Zealand, that land Down Under most people know from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

Even with all the Hobbit film tourism boom, I still feel like most people overlook New Zealand.

It's a psychological horror FMV game, starring Adam Brown (The Hobbit) and Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful), with writing by people who worked on The Witcher, SOMA, and Broken Sword.

But that would've led people to think that SoM is nothing more than a movie knock - off looking to capitalize of The Hobbit's success.

Steamroller Studios boasts an impressive, yet small team of people, who have worked on movies such as The Hobbit, Avatar, The Avengers, How To Train Your Dragon 2, and games such as Bioshock, and Left 4 Dead.

Hat just took away the ability to customize based on many different segments of the population such as wheel - chair bound people and maybe some of my hobbit sized friends?

This is why people were unnerved watching The Hobbit at 48 frames per second as opposed to the 24 fps we've been seeing from film reels for decades, later mimicked by digital cameras and projectors.