I love this time of science. Chesterton hit it spot on, and with his usual humor in “The Everlasting Man.” Speculation goes to some pretty bizarre places based on one set of cave drawings, or in this case some random samplings of teeth. He said something like when we envision cave men we don’t picture them doing careful and detailed artistic studies on cave walls . . . but that is what we really know about them . . . :P
He put it better.
The TYPE of science that is.