In a paper delivered to the Australasian Society for Human Biology in 2009, Colin Groves and Catharine FitzGerald compared the Flores bones with those of ten people who had had cretinism, focusing on anatomical features typical of the disease.
U radu dostavljenom Australazijskom društvu za ljudsku biologiju 2009. godine, Colin Groves i Catharine FitzGerald usporedili su floreske kosti s onima kod deset osoba s kretenizmom, fokusirajući se na anatomske osobine koje su tipične za tu bolest.