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[[Image:Nebraska Man.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Nebraska man]] was made famous by Henry Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History. Nebraska man turned out to be nothing more than a single pig-like tooth. The picture above appeared in the publication ''Illustrated London News'']]

[[Image:Nebraska Man.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Nebraska man]] was made famous by Henry Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History. Nebraska man turned out to be nothing more than a single pig-like tooth. The picture above appeared in the publication ''Illustrated London News'']]

'''Nebraska man''' (also called ''Hesperopithecus haroldcookii'') was a case of [[Theory of evolution|evolutionary]] speculation. Nebraska man was based on the find of a single peccary-like tooth (wild pig like tooth) found by a rancher in 1922.

'''Nebraska man''' (also called ''Hesperopithecus haroldcookii'') was a case of [[Theory of evolution|evolutionary]] speculation. Nebraska man was based on the find of a single peccary-like [[tooth]] (wild pig like tooth) found by a rancher in 1922.

Nebraska Man was debated vigorously among evolutionary paleoanthropologists for five years until Dr. Gregory King Williams published a refutation of the find in the journal ''Science'' which ended the debate<ref name="aac">http://www.allaboutcreation.org/nebraska-man-faq.htm</ref>

 

Nebraska man never gained wide acceptance by evolutionary scientists although it enjoyed coverage in newspapers including the ''[[Illustrated London News]]''.<ref name="aac" /><ref name="dd">http://www.detectingdesign.com/earlyman.html#Nebraska%20Man</ref>

Nebraska Man was debated vigorously among evolutionary paleoanthropologists for five years until Dr. Gregory King Williams published a refutation of the find in the journal ''[[Science]]'' which ended the debate<ref name="aac">http://www.allaboutcreation.org/nebraska-man-faq.htm</ref>

Dr. [[Henry Fairfield Osborn]], head of the Department of Paleontology at New York’s [[American Museum of Natural History]], used Nebraska Man to promote the idea of humans evolving from apes, and was planning on introducing it as evidence at the [[Scopes Trial]], although that never eventuated.<ref>Most expert testimony was excluded from the trial.</ref>

Nebraska man never gained wide acceptance by evolutionary scientists although it enjoyed coverage in [[newspaper]]s including the ''[[Illustrated London News]]''.<ref name="aac" /><ref name="dd">http://www.detectingdesign.com/earlyman.html#Nebraska%20Man</ref>

 

Dr. [[Henry Fairfield Osborn]], head of the Department of Paleontology at New York’s [[American Museum of Natural History]], used Nebraska Man to promote the idea of [[human being]]s evolving from [[ape]]s, and was planning on introducing it as evidence at the [[Scopes Trial]], although that never eventuated.<ref>Most expert testimony was excluded from the trial.</ref>

The Scopes trial was being prosecuted by [[William Jennings Bryan]], about whom Osborn wrote in the press:

The Scopes trial was being prosecuted by [[William Jennings Bryan]], about whom Osborn wrote in the press:

{{cquote|“The earth spoke to Bryan from his own state of Nebraska. The Hesperopithecus tooth is like the still, small voice. Its sound is by no means easy to hear... This little tooth speaks volumes of truth, in that it affords evidence of man’s descent from the ape."<ref name="dd" />}}

{{cquote|The earth spoke to Bryan from his own state of Nebraska. The Hesperopithecus tooth is like the still, small voice. Its sound is by no means easy to hear... This little tooth speaks volumes of truth, in that it affords evidence of man’s descent from the ape.<ref name="dd" />}}

 

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