I see a post like yours and I'm filled with an incredible weariness. "Recent?" Is one out of three good? Piltdown Man is a fraud from 1912, finally debunked in 1954 although relegated to the "suspect" bin much earlier. Peking Man disappeared in WWII during the Japanese invasion of China. Yeah, we staged that to get rid of those fossils! Anyway, Peking Man is now classed as the Asian variety of
Homo erectus, of which other specimens exist. We also have nice photos, drawings, and casts of the lost specimens, so not that much is missing.
Archaeoraptor's short career before exposure ended early in 2000! Congratulations, you almost made it into the 21st century! (Alas, that started almost a year later on Jan 1, 2001.) Funny, you had to skip from humans to birds after one fraud from 1912 and one lost crate of fossils from WWII on the human line.
What's still missing compared to what's there?
Time Magazine touting a sham as fact in 2001 isn't exactly a long time ago. Has the dust really settled enough to draw conclusions?
