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There was an object sitting on the table a few feet away from him; it was covered with a black cloth, so all I could tell about it was that it was about the size of a hobbit's head.
NaBloPoMo: Deuce Baggins, Private Eye - chapter 16 Johnny Pez 2009
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The hobbit's discovery presented evidence that as recently as 12,000 years ago another species of human may have roamed the earth and, more startling, that our evolutionary history was a lot more complex than previously thought.
'Tip of the Iceberg' 2007
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Therefore, pathology cannot explain, for example, why the hobbit's wrist is indistinguishable from that of a normal chimpanzee.
'Tip of the Iceberg' 2007
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Tocheri, who has been studying wrists since 2001 and began looking at the hobbit's wrist bones last November, spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jessica Bennett.
'Tip of the Iceberg' 2007
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Pathology cannot adequately explain why the shape of the hobbit's [wrist] is just like what we've seen in Australopithecus, early species of Homo, and African apes.
'Tip of the Iceberg' 2007
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The hobbit's leg bones are abnormally thick and round, and have very weak muscle attachments, probably indicating some kind of growth disorder.
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The "hobbit's" skull is deformed in a way that makes it less symmetrical than a healthy human skull, a strong indicator that the individual suffered from a pathological condition like microcephaly.
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It was in the fall of 1980 when we got the word that hobbit's had to move because of the Office building was going up and the Hobbit's building was being sacrificed for a parking lot.
E.Jim Shannon E.Jim Shannon 2005
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It was in the fall of 1980 when we got the word that hobbit's had to move because of the Office building was going up and the Hobbit's building was being sacrificed for a parking lot.
Archive 2005-12-01 E.Jim Shannon 2005
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And on the other side the snow suddenly grows less, while further down it is no more than a white coverlet to cool a hobbit's toes. '
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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