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Halflings are oviously survivors of some small island that got isolated, survived through the natural selection of smaller individuals, in competition for scarce resources.
The real life application of this is Homo floresiensis, which died out on the Indonesian Island of Flores, and may have died out about 10,000-13,000 years ago.
This is actually a fairly common occurance amongst animals; there have been midget varieties of many mammals (or their remains) found living on islands: mammoths on an island in Siberia, which seemed to have survived long after the mainland large variety died out; pygmy elephants in the medditerranean, pygmy hippopotamii, and so on.
The real life application of this is Homo floresiensis, which died out on the Indonesian Island of Flores, and may have died out about 10,000-13,000 years ago.
This is actually a fairly common occurance amongst animals; there have been midget varieties of many mammals (or their remains) found living on islands: mammoths on an island in Siberia, which seemed to have survived long after the mainland large variety died out; pygmy elephants in the medditerranean, pygmy hippopotamii, and so on.
