Just because he has a big brain doesn’t mean he knows how to use it but,

in consideration of the recently unearthed human skull,

we current representatives of the organism known as human do appear
to fade,

in comparison. That is, our heads are significantly
smaller. Otherwise, why mention the discrepancy?

One way to avoid any negative comparisons subsequently
detrimental to ourselves is to declare this specimæn, Idaltu,

a different species and to declare, furthermore, that he doesn’t appear
to be “any brighter” (whatever this is supposed to mean and
however they arrive at this conclusion), and that precisely
is the tack scientists have taken, which is of course in our

favor, if we think
brain size matters,
and it seems, in any case, that to, at
the least, some
folks, it does.

(to be continued)