the flores man (ironically believed to be the "alien" by old dogs) as a landmark for a natural evolutionary timeline (where varieties of homo genus are evolving on earth at the same time)
compared to;
the flores man, as a family of insular dwarfs, the only other potential variety of homo-genus found thus far, to have survived into modern times without being engulfed by the homo-sapien precursor of its time (only 14000 years ago)