Who Were the Hobbits?

Who were the hobbits?
The hobbits were a species of human known as Homo floresiensis that lived on the Island of Flores, Indonesia. They were about as tall as a modern 4-year old, which is where their nickname came from. They lived from 38,000-12,000 years ago, and were discovered in 2003. They had the brain size of a modern chimp, yet they had intelligent behavior. There is no confirmed theory as to why they are so small, but one theory to their diminutive size is that they shrank through an ecological process known as "island dwarfing", where a species that lives on an island gradually becomes smaller, because there are less or no predators,and/or resources are not plentiful, so there would be no real advantage to a larger size.their ancestors are also unclear. They could have descended from Homo erectus, but Homo erectus were more bodily advanced, and further in evolution than the hobbits, so they would have had to un-evolve a lot to become they way they were. They could have come from Homo habilis, which was an earlier and more primitive species than Homo erectus, but there is no evidence of Homo habilis ever leaving Africa. Hobbits are a controversial topic among anthropologists, because some experts argue that the hobbits are not a new species, and are only a mutation from another species. They also argue that not enough fossils have been found of Homo foresiensis to prove that it was an independent species, and they could have just been the odd ones out of a normal group.