I understand, and am a firm believer in digging deeper to find even older stuff. But in some of these theories one must also dig deeper into who is funding and promoting the study and theory. In this case Durham University. Because of the source there is a very strong indication that this study could be biased towards supporting Anglican theology with science.
Can you explain to me in what ways Anglican theology might be used to slant science reporting. Or Catholic theology, or Funamentalist theology, as I suspect you may have a good point here.
I don't think it's a theological slant, it's a xenophobic nationalistic slant -- Darwin said it, I believe it, that settles it, and one of those pronouncements was that the chimp was the closest relative of humans (that was long before the discovery of DNA) and that all our ancestors came from Africa (unknowable then, still that way)..