Possible Benefits and Ramifications for Humanity
Possibly...none
And then again, as is true with so many scientific breakthroughs, possibly many.
Science, being an ongoing cycle of seeking, then seeking more and more, has a tendancy to create more questions than it answers.
To feel the answers to what exactly this means to humanity would be to say we have discontinued seeking.
This fossil is so complex, all it's secrets will probably never be known.
Dare we not try?
Even with a fossil that has the latent potential to ROCK the foundations of several scientific theories, not only about fossilization, but neurologically, about the workings of the human brain.
The tragedy is in a single word...a really bad word for science, but one that ties all breathing humans into a common bond, the word "bias."
Never before has there been such a fossil discovered and recognized.
Where are all the others? This can't be the only one!
I suggest, they are on the other side of "bias."
Studies in Brain Structure Morphology, Genome Research, Structure deviations, Comparative Physiological unknowns, Cellular and Biochemical mineralogical interactions in forming extremely complex fossils...may help unlock the mysteries as to where the others are, and how to find them.
The questions and answers may be simple or complex, but the main issue is...there are a lot of them!
Is all this a "reach?"
Is it projecting too much into to little?
Maybe...maybe not.
There has never been a fossil like this one before.
We don't really know what it has for mankind until the research is earnestly in progress.
Excitement is building. Curiosity...curiosity?