Experts split over human Hobbit remains

The claim that the Homo floresiensis would be descended from some late australopithecine is hard to believe as there is no proof of australopithecines (or members of Paranthropus) outside Africa, and even the Paranthropus lineage became extinct about a million years ago. Before the first wave of Human movement outside Africa there should then have been a third, australopithecine one. But even the archaic skulls named Homo georgicus - which may represent early Homo ergaster or erectus or be on the extreme edge of variation on the Homo erectus species - from Georgia have far larger brains than Homo floresiensis. And I doubt the validity of claims of a person who says that Homo floresiensis "may have been more primitive than Homo habilis", which had double the brain size of Homo floresiensis. If the advancement of a Human species is counted on the basis of the size of the brain, certainly they were.