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The Nebraska man (also called Hesperopithecus haroldcookii) was a case of evolutionary speculation. Nebraska man was promoted based on the find of a single peccary-like tooth (wild pig like tooth) found by a rancher in 1922. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, head of the Department of Palaeontology at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, wrote the following in the press concerning William Jennings Bryan:
| “ | “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."[1][2] | ” |
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[3] Nebraska man never gained wide acceptance by evolutionary scientists although it enjoyed coverage in the Illustrated London News.[4][5]