Did Homo Sapiens kill off the Hobbits?

[bob10]

Humans blamed for loss of our prehistoric hobbits (http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2016/09/22/humans-killed-hobbits/?utm_source=Responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160923_TND)

[sheerluck]

Nah, it was definitely the Orcs.

[isuzurover]

Not killed off so much as interbred with. Paper published a few days ago in nature confirms through genetics that aborigines were the first humans on the australian continent, but on the way from africa they picked up 4% of their DNA from proto humans such as these guys.

[bob10]

I think this may be the paper.

The genetic history of Aboriginal Australians – University of Copenhagen (http://geogenetics.ku.dk/latest-news/alle_nyheder/2016/aboriginal-australia/)