Needs more politics. Not even kidding. Enormous arguments over nothing can be very superficially covered by journalists, but the real, dramatic story is someo

Needs more politics. Not even kidding. Enormous arguments over nothing can be very superficially covered by journalists, but the real, dramatic story is someone might get kicked out of some human studies department or funding grant or chair because fossil XYZ is, or is not, a human fossil. Or someone is agitating for, or against, a department schism creating a new "almost but not really human" department of studies with the right or wrong person as highly paid chair of course in competition with the legacy department. Or someone's tenure depends on rabble rousing enough to get publicity to be seen as relevant. Or someone's hiring or tenure has to be denied for various acceptable or unacceptable demographic membership reasons or maybe just trivialities (this is academics after all) and they need a highly dramatic cover story. Maybe some public museum only gets financial funding for "human fossils" and there's a condo developer eyeing that block of land for redevelopment, and it sure would be convenient if the money dried up. There's probably a real dramatic story underneath the argument, but the journalist somehow managed to miss it.