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From John Hawks blog, a reference to a story indicating that there will possibly be new information about this small bit of jaw from an early British site:

KENTS CAVERN JAWBONE COULD BE EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN FIRST THOUGHT

South Devon Herald Express
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John Hawks describes in his blog why this is potentially significant, […]

A current news story reports new analysis of a Spanish Neanderthal (Neandertal) site called El Sidrón. I think this is an interesting example of how scientific information reported in a peer reviewed journal is transformed into “copy” that generates or supports the public’s mythical view of science …