Peter Brown, who discovered the fossil “hobbits” in Indonesia, recently spoke at the University of Oregon. From Paleoanthropologist speaks at UO about ‘hobbit’ discovery:
Though the hobbit people were very small — the adult stood as tall as a 3-year-old human child and had a brain the size of a newborn human baby — they had incredible strength, Brown said.“Chimpanzees have an arm strength four times that of a human; the hobbits were similarly as strong, we think,” Brown said. “You wouldn’t want to arm wrestle one, that’s for sure. It would probably snap your arm off.”