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74  "Nebraska Man" Fraud, The



               re fer to him as Homo sa pi ens ne an der -  near Snake Valley in Nebraska, he
               tal en sis. Recent dis cov er ies show that  had found a mo lar tooth that bore
               the Neanderthals bur ied their dead,  com mon hu man and ape fea tures,
               made var i ous mu si cal in stru ments  dat ing back to the Pliocene Period.
               and shared a cul ture as de vel oped as  Before long, a pro found sci en tif ic de -
               that of mod ern man, Homo sa pi ens sa -  bate on the sub ject had be gun. Some
               pi ens.                             peo ple re gard ed this tooth as be -
                                                   long ing  to  Pithecanthropus erec tus,
                                                   while oth ers said it was clos er to be -
               "NEBRASKA MAN" FRAUD,               ing ful ly hu man. This fos sil was giv -
               THE                                 en the pop u lar name of Nebraska

                  In 1922, Henry Fairfield Osborn,  Man and the sci en tif ic name of:
               di rect or of the American Museum of  Hesperopithecus har old cook ii.
               Natural History, an nounced that      Based on this sin gle tooth,















                                                                 The Neanderthals:
                                                                 A Human Race

                                                                 To the above can be seen
                                                                 the Homo sa pi ens ne an -
                                                                 der thal en sis Amud 1
                                                                 skull, dis cov ered in
                                                                 Israel. It is es ti mat ed that
                                                                 the own er of this skull
                                                                 would have stood 1.80
                                                                 me ters (5 feet, 11 inch es)
                                                                 tall. Its brain vol ume is
                                                                 the larg est so far en coun -
                                                                 tered for Neanderthals, at
                                                                 1,740 cu bic cen ti me ters.




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