Chinese Claim Early Man Fame

The “out of Africa” hypothesis must be wrong, some Chinese anthropologists claim, because they have a modern skeleton 40,000 years old.  The story is reported by the BBC News, EurekAlert, National Geographic News and Science Daily.
    The BBC News report starts, “The find could shed light on how our ancestors colonised the East, a movement that is only poorly understood by anthropologists.”  The 34 fragments of bone suggest, according to the discoverers, that the individual was a modern human with some archaic characteristics.  If modern humans had migrated out of Africa 30,000 years earlier, why did this individual retain earlier features?  One possibility offered was that the two interbred.

Evolutionary news stories often include two tell-tale phrases.  Such-and-such a new discovery “may shed light” on something that is “poorly understood.”  This is code for “we’re about to tell a fictional tale that props up Darwinian hopes for another day.”  Like we said, they are tell-tale phrases.