Jawbone of an Ass
“They don’t seem real clear on what it is other than a human jawbone. So, how do they know it’s human?”
They don’t... What makes a human a human is not in the bones. It’s the soul or at the very, least the brain. Who’s to say that this animal did not have the reasoning of a monkey? The skeleton could have “evolved” hundreds of thousands of years ahead of the brain. I suspect that the brain evolved to human six thousand years ago...
Here’s the problem with relying on press releases and non-specialist websites and the MSM for science information
The headline doesn’t match the article, or the scientific paper by the discoverers.
It’s a “hominin” jawbone, like human. But some idiot at LiveScience put “human” in the headline.
Jawbone of an Ass