"Teeth and jaw fragments can tell a knowledgeable person a lot about the owner of that tooth or jaw fragment"
As in the case of Nebraska man.
As in the case of Nebraska man.
Exactly!! The scientists who determined the correct classification and who were able to correct the mistaken classification of the specimen as being a primate were able to do so in part because the tooth fit nowhere, based on its morphology, within the accepted history of human and primate descent. (And is another reason why creationism is silly: If there was anything to a god poofing animals into existence, this valuable error-correcting process is lost as no such evaluation is possible.)