Nebraska Man
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Nebraska Man was a name applied to Hesperopithecus haroldcookii, a putative species of ape. It was heralded as the first higher primate of North America. It was originally described by Henry Fairfield
This illustration of H. haroldcookii, by artist Amédée Forestier, was modeled on the Java Man.
A comparison of the Hesperopithecus tooth with those of primates
Piltdown Man
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The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. Although doubts about Piltdown Man's authenticit
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Group portrait of the Piltdown skull being examined. Back row (from left): F. O. Barlow, G. Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward. Front row: A. S. Underwood, Arthur Keith, W. P. Pycraft, and Ray Lankester. The portrait on the wall is of Charles Darwin. Painting by John Cooke, 1915.
Piltdown Man
Piltdown Man skull reconstruction
The Piltdown Man memorial stone.