[franksolich]

Just out of idle curiosity, sir, what was the "Nebraska man" that turned out a fraud?

[Messianic Jews Net]

Nebraska man (Hesperopithecus haroldcookii) and his wife and family complete with imaginative cave were carefully drawn by a tabloid publication which was then waved around at the Snopes trial to prove common ape-man descent in 1925. In 1927 the fossil evidence (one tooth) was reunited with an extinct pig's skull, from which everyone later admitted the tooth originally came.

Nebraska man's tooth was the blunt instrument with which Darrow killed Bryan.

[blam]

Creationist Argument: Nebraska Man

Nebraska Man illustration by London News

[mountainlyons]

Nebraska man was a whole race of prehuman man so that the Americans could have a claim to early man on this continent. They had pictures painted of the a humanoid that they said was what they thought it would look like. When it turned out the only "bone" they had for the whole race turned out to be a pig's tooth so the whole thing was dropped. There are several other frauds in anthropology but they are hard to find.