"Pronouncements that H. floresiensis lacked the brain size necessary to make stone artefacts are therefore based on preconceptions rather than evidence," the researchers say.

Brain size is overrated. Just think what a hummingbird can do with a brain about the size of a grain of rice. OK, it will never write Newton's Principia or Beethoven's 9th, but neither will we.

Isn't Gregory Cockran supposed to come out with a theory about these "hobbits" thats going to knock our socks off?

Yes, could we get an idea of when this announcement is going to take place?

Has everyone forgotten brain mass/body mass?