While Dr. Thorne is not the author of the reading, what are his qualifications? What experience does he have?

At the time of Dr. Thorne’s discovery, anthropologists believed that thick-skulled, big-browed humanoids had descended from walking apes, and were eventually replaced by more advanced humans with fine bones, Homo sapiens. Before the discovery of Mungo Lady, anthropologists had only found human remains with large brows and thick skulls in Australia.