Nick Wade has a long article which offers updates on the story of Homo florensis. Wade reports that some scientists hypothesize that H. florensis might be derived from H. sapiens based on the advanced tools that the species produced. The reduction in brain size seems to argue against that, the peoples of the Andaman Islands have been relatively isolated but did not undergo such a sharp reduction in their cranial volume, and the chronology of the fossil findings seem to make an argument for continuity between modern humans and the Flores dwarves difficult. This research will take years to digest, and the possibility of DNA extraction could clarify many of these arguments.