"One innocent misinterpretation from 1922 and caught almost at once."
The mistake of Nebraska Man was "caught" in 1927. It was a single tooth from a peccary (extinct pig).
They made an interesting use of it. They showed it at the Scopes "Monkey" trial in 1925 as irrefutable evidence of the animal ancestry of man. Since William Jennings Bryan was himself from the state of Nebraska, Osborn chided him about Nebraska man in the press:
"The earth spoke to Bryan from his own state of Nebraska. The Hesperopithecus tooth is like the still, small voice. It's sound is by no means easy to hear ----. This little tooth speaks volumes of truth, in that it affords evidence of mans descent from the ape".
It was a single tooth from a peccary (extinct pig).
Peccaries are alive and well and actually aren't direct members of the pig family.
No, they didn't. The intended presentation by the defense was objected and sustained.
And you're only dealing with what you got (generously) "right." Deal with what you got wrong. You most egregiously mischaracterize Australopithecus by lumping it with a fake from 1912, a misinterpretation from 1922, and something that was once thought a possible human ancestor but reconsidered after more data came in.
IS YOUR POST A FAKE OR A HOAX?