Nebraska Man - The desperate need of evolutionists to find a missing link has also contributed to some inexcusably gross scientific boo-boos. The most notable of these was Nebraska Man. A pig’s tooth, found by Harold Cook in 1922, was proclaimed by the eminent evolutionist Dr Henry Fairfield Osborne (the head of the department of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History) to belong to the first anthropoid (man-like) ape of America, which he named Hesperopithecus (‘western ape’). The illustrated London News for June 24, 1922, printed an artist’s impression of the tooth’s owner as an upright-standing ape-man, showing the shape of his body, head, nose, ears, hair, etc., together with his wife, domestic animals, and tools. (ed. and all this from one tooth !!)
Another huge hoax field has been the way in which scores of deformed humans were exhibited as ‘ape-men’ or ‘ape-women’ in circus side shows from the early 1800’s for over a century, with no known scientific refutation of the frauds so perpetrated.1
1. One of the best known was Julia Pastrana (1834-1860), who suffered from several genetic diseases, which caused her to have profuse bodily hair and an ape-like protruding jaw. TJ 16(3).