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mandibular bone belonged to a recently deceased ape! The teeth were
thereafter specially arranged in an array and added to the jaw and the
joints were filed in order to make them resemble that of a man. Then all
these pieces were stained with potassium dichromate to give them a dated
appearance. (These stains disappeared when dipped in acid.) Le Gros
Clark, who was a member of the team that disclosed the forgery, could not
hide his astonishment:
The evidences of artificial abrasion immediately sprang to the eye. Indeed so
obvious did they seem it may well be asked: how was it that they had
escaped notice before? 7
Nebraska Man
In 1922, Henry Fairfield Osborn, the director of the American Museum
of Natural History, declared that he had found a molar tooth fossil in west-
ern Nebraska near Snake Brook belonging to the Pliocene period. This
tooth allegedly bore the common characteristics of both man and ape.
Deep scientific arguments began in which some interpreted this tooth to
The above picture was drawn based on a single tooth and it was published in the
Illustrated London News of 24th July 1922. However, evolutionists were extremely
disappointed when it was revealed that this tooth belonged neither to an ape-like
creature nor to a man, but to an extinct species of pig.
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