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Science, at least decent basic "science", would at least have some presentation of the number of artifacts, their distributions -- charts and graphs of measurable characteristics of those artifacts indicating the distribution of values, contrasting modern human distributions with the claimant sets.

What is the variance in jaw curvature among modern humans? Amoungst chimps and apes? What is the variance in those claimed artifacts of proto-human jaws?

The site you linked to, as best I can tell, does NOT give numbers, numbers of artifacts, numbers measured of jaw widths, curvatures etc. Almost no numbers at all. Where is Lord Kelvin when you need him? Wasn't it Lord Kelvin who said "no science without numbers!"? That site you linked to, iirc, makes a claim of a novel human species or subspecies based on only one artifact -- one teeny toe bone! Wow! Such wonderful *science*!

"The site you linked to, as best I can tell, does NOT give numbers, numbers of artifacts, numbers measured of jaw widths, curvatures etc. Almost no numbers at all. Where is Lord Kelvin when you need him? Wasn't it Lord Kelvin who said "no science without numbers!"? That site you linked to, iirc, makes a claim of a novel human species or subspecies based on only one artifact -- one teeny toe bone! Wow! Such wonderful *science*!"

Advertising your personal ignorance of extant scientific literature is not a particulary persuasive form of argument. I suggest you visit this site:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

In the search window provided, type in a topic of choice (e.g., "primate fossil classification" [615 entries] or "modern human jaw structure" [220 entries]). Read. Learn.