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The Monkey Men Series  
Nebraska Man

NEBRASKA MAN has to be one of the more humorous missing links that evolutionists have attempted to use in order to prove evolution.

This is the story of Nebraska Man. A Geologist Harold Cook found a single tooth in Snake Creek quarry in western Nebraska in 1921. The fossilized tooth was then sent to Henry Osborn, who was head of the American Museum of Natural History. He determined that this tooth had characteristics of a chimpanzee and man. He was delighted at the new evidence (because it was around the time of the scopes trial). He immediately rushed to publication, and announced the new species Hesperopithecus meaning "Ape of the western world". In England Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy of Manchester, fully supported Osborn.

But the outcome of further study into the unusual tooth was not actually from an ape-man but from a wild pig called a peccary.

nebraska man and his wife

" The outcome of further study into the unusual tooth was not actually from an ape-man but from a wild pig called a peccary. "

Nebraska Man  

The discovery was made when Osborn himself went to Nebraska in the summers of 1925 and 1926. Many more teeth were found, and it became apparent that they goofed. The teeth belonged to an extinct peccary (shown below), Prosthennops. So in effect a retraction of Hesperopithecus was published in 1927.

Note that the ape-man and his wife (as shown above) was "scientifically" constructed from a tooth. Despite the fact that this is not an ape-man it is still used in some modern textbooks to this day.

the real nebraska man

Osborn himself referred to that drawing as "a figment of the imagination of no scientific value"

Peccary  

Regarding the drawing of Nebraska Man, Osborn himself referred to that drawing as "a figment of the imagination of no scientific value".

Imagine the leading top scientific authorities had created an entire race of people out of a single pigs tooth. In this case little publicity was provided after the error was discovered (nowhere the extent of the scopes trial publicity). I guess no one wants to end up looking like a monkey.

 
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