I’m guessing a lot of the problem is simply error and wishful thinking on the part of the palaeontologists involved. Not exactly an, ahem, exact science, this show of piecing bones together.
I’m still trying to figure out how they reconstructed an entire proto-human skeleton out of three knuckle bones from an extinct species of peccary.
[[I’m still trying to figure out how they reconstructed an entire proto-human skeleton out of three knuckle bones from an extinct species of peccary.]]
They sniffed a LOT of glue before they attempted it?