WI Homo floresiensis survives to the present day?

World War II would be determined by two of them sneaking into Germany to drop Hitler's ultimate weapon back into the volcano in which it was created. Then they'd return home to find that Mussolini had taken over their country and they'd have to fight a war of liberation.
 
World War II would be determined by two of them sneaking into Germany to drop Hitler's ultimate weapon back into the volcano in which it was created. Then they'd return home to find that Mussolini had taken over their country and they'd have to fight a war of liberation.
That requires neanderthals to survive too.:p
 
I'm really not sure can crossbreeding even happen between a homo floriensis and a homo sapiens.

I think regardless of whether it is possible to crossbreed between homo sapiens and homo floresiensis, it will be tried.

Repeatedly.

And put on DVDs. I'll leave the titles of the DVDs as an exercise for the reader.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang_Pendek

This could be reality. If you believe in cryptids.

Apparently the stories of the locals have these creatures kidnapping children, the only humans they could reliably overpower. They would hold the children and try to get them to show them how to make fire, or other tricks we can do. The children would always be able to outsmart the Orang Pendek to get away, though. Creepy, with shades of changelings and 'King Louis'.

So if the stories are true, it is likely that most of them were already wiped out by the locals before westerners even got there.

What's interesting about the Orang Pendek is that "pygmies" or "dwarfs" are found in many other Austronesian cultures as well, often as people who possess some skill (crafts, agriculture) and teach it to the Austronesians who then kill them for stealing their children. In Hawaii you have the Menehune, Orang Pendek in Sumatra, and in Taiwan you have numerous stories among many of the tribes of "little dark skinned men".
 

Stephen

Banned
Although there numbers take a bit of a hit from contact diseases they are shiped around the world as novelty items and bred in farms. The arecapable of being taugh simple tasks and wetnursing etc, also used in mines and as chimney sweeps. Although crossbreeding is posible they tend to have poor health and little fertility.
 
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