Me in November 2004:

However, It isn’t unusual to find that on small island environments
animals shrink in size over the generations. Malta had a kind of pygmy
mammoth for example, and this island had pygmy elephants. Rather than
this being some new and completely different type of Homo, could it
rather be simply a sub-type of Homo Erectus who went through this
process?

The Telegraph today:

The row over whether 3ft-tall "Hobbits" once walked the Earth takes a
new twist today with a claim that they were actually pygmies and not a
new species of human.

So, do I get tons of grant money now?