Oh, i just flip head over heels for topics like this!!!! I knew this would be found!
You guys don't know how happy i am now.
Anyway, i find it rather obvious that this would happen, since if you follow some of the finds pretaining to our ancestrial remains these figures keep getting smaller. It's just something i've noticed. Another thing is, i was talking to someone at a museum once (It was the Royal BC museum in Victoria, in the "First Peoples" Section... it seemed out of place.) and we spent somewhere around a hour discussing the fact that we might have even smaller ancestors... Hmm? Maybe we all are right about this.
Since the article made a reference to a tropical type climate, i thought i might contribute some of this "mythology"...
this is something from
http://www.occultopedia.com/m/menehune.htm