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...modern humans about 250,000 years ago. And while the general trend in human evolution over the past 7 million years or so has been toward larger bodies and larger brains, H. floresiensis went the other way: not only was its body small but, again unlike Pygmy or midget H. sapiens, its brain was only about the size of a grapefruit--smaller than that of a chimpanzee. "To think," says Nature senior editor Henry Gee, "that these creatures were evolving on their island while there were perfectly modern humans all around the place--it's astonishing...
...creature clearly wasn't an ape. It resembled the famous Lucy in stature and brain size, but the shape of the skull is very different; besides, Lucy is more than 3 million years older. The tiny brain also rules out the theory that this was a type of Pygmy, midget or dwarf, whose brains are all comparable in scale to those of full-size adults. But evolution does provide an explanation, known to biologists as the Island Rule: when isolated on small islands in the absence of big predators, large mammals tend to evolve toward smaller sizes. That's because...
...shiny-suit stint in a series of Pepsi commercials, Charles’ history is anything but clean. It is certainly not the stuff of our morally-obsessed pop culture. Throughout the film, we see Charles smoke his first joint (which he got from a midget, by the way), sleep with countless women, become a heroin junkie, and systematically, one by one, alienate every person who ever gave a damn about...
...nefarious plot to turn the townspeople into giant balls of cotton candy. Their only hope is local boy Dave Hansen (John Allen Nelson). The highlight, however, is the clowns’ killing spree: you haven’t lived until you’ve seen a clown midget punch off a biker’s head, or a shadow puppet tyrannosaurus rex eat a crowd of children...
...seems that Craaps’s promise to host the first senior bar at the Cambridge Home for the Aged and Infirmed—an event titled “Boozin’ wit’ da Biddies”—and to schedule a lesbian midget ultimate fighting cage match (to the death) in lieu of a class day speaker didn’t resonate with voters. When asked to comment on the outcome of the elections, Craaps furiously flipped his feather boa around his neck, stared pensively into the distance and said...