[GoLightly]

Did you see Neanderthal or Cretin? A Debate Over Iodine?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1689676/posts

Egil's bones is post #4.

The point I was trying to make had to do with relying too much on form, especially when dealing with a minute sampling. Modern "little people" have a range of skeletal proportions. While they are a small percentage of the population, they aren't a subspecies. Thousands of years from now, finding a burial of a modern little person could possibly lead to incorrect conclusions drawn.

I'm looking forward to the test results too.

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks. Very interesting about the idione link. My ancestors on the maternal side came from the Salzburg region and my great grandmother, grandmother and mother all suffered from thyroid problems.