Hominid Hype and the Election Cycle

It's that time of the election cycle again. You know, the time when the media starts regularly deploying the "evolution test" to decide whether a candidate is mentally impaired. Those who capitulate to the Darwinian consensus are deemed of normal intelligence and fit for office. Those who don't are subjected to public mockery and humiliation.

In this context, the media is naturally going ape over papers recently published in the journal Science discussing an australopithecine fossil. ...