By the time Tarpon Springs city commissioners were to vote Tuesday on how to proceed with two finalists for city manager, they had the candidates’ applications and resumes for less than a week. Commissioners had interviewed the finalists three days earlier, first in private and then in a public meeting. But they did not receive the resumes of the other roughly 20 applicants cut by a search .
This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed.