A news brief from Science Daily details the lastest blow to the hypothesis of insular dwarfism in archaic hominins in Micronesia. This story was a bit unbelievable since it surfaced last spring in National Geographic, but managed to hang around human evolution discussion because of the interesting LB1 specimen found on Flores several years earlier. This article does not mention LB1 and the Flores specimens attributed to Homo floresiensis.
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