The human skull that challenges the Out of Africa theory

[Peter1469]

That is the way science works. Give Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions a read. The establishment hold onto their theories because it gives them both fame and funds for continued work. It takes much more than a skull to shake things up. Just as anomalies found in Webb Space Telescope images haven't debunked Big Bang, not yet.

In physics around the turn of the 20th century, the common phrase was that science advances with funerals.