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== Paleoanthropology ==

== Paleoanthropology ==

''For more information please see'': [[Paleoanthropology]] and [[Human evolution]]

''For more information please see'': [[Paleoanthropology]] and [[Human evolution]]

[[Image:Nebraska Man.jpg|thumb|alt=human evolution|110px|left|[[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.]]

[[Image:Nebraska Man.jpg|thumb|alt=human evolution|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.]]

[[Paleoanthropology]] is an interdisciplinary branch of [[anthropology]] that concerns itself with the origins of early humans and it examines and evaluates items such as fossils and [[artifact]]s.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9058075/paleoanthropology Encyclopedia Britannica (online): Paleoanthropology]</ref> Dr. David Pilbeam is a paleoanthropologist who received his Ph.D. at [[Yale]] University and Dr. Pilbeam is presently Professor of Social Sciences at [[Harvard]] University and Curator of Paleontology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.<ref>[http://www.researchmatters.harvard.edu/people.php?people_id=906 Dr. David Pilbeam: Brief Biography]</ref> In addition, Dr. Pilbeam served as an advisor for the Kenya government regarding the creation of an international institute for the study of human origins.<ref>[[Answers in Genesis]], [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v14/i4/fossils.asp Those Fossils Are A Problem]</ref>

[[Paleoanthropology]] is an interdisciplinary branch of [[anthropology]] that concerns itself with the origins of early humans and it examines and evaluates items such as fossils and [[artifact]]s.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9058075/paleoanthropology Encyclopedia Britannica (online): Paleoanthropology]</ref> Dr. David Pilbeam is a paleoanthropologist who received his Ph.D. at [[Yale]] University and Dr. Pilbeam is presently Professor of Social Sciences at [[Harvard]] University and Curator of Paleontology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.<ref>[http://www.researchmatters.harvard.edu/people.php?people_id=906 Dr. David Pilbeam: Brief Biography]</ref> In addition, Dr. Pilbeam served as an advisor for the Kenya government regarding the creation of an international institute for the study of human origins.<ref>[[Answers in Genesis]], [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v14/i4/fossils.asp Those Fossils Are A Problem]</ref>

In addition, the science magazine ''[[New Scientist]]'' reported the following:

In addition, the science magazine ''[[New Scientist]]'' reported the following:

{{cquote|"A five million-year-old piece of bone that was thought to be a collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a [[dolphin]] rib according to an anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley." - Ian Anderson<ref name="ianpage199">Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199</ref><ref>http://www.creationism.org/articles/quotes.htm</ref>}}

{{cquote|"A five million-year-old piece of bone that was thought to be a collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a [[dolphin]] rib according to an anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley." - Ian Anderson<ref name="ianpage199">Ian Anderson, "Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin's rib", in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, page 199</ref><ref>http://www.creationism.org/articles/quotes.htm</ref>}}

 

Dr. Tim White, anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley, likened the incident on par with the "[[Nebraska man]]" and "[[Piltdown Man]]" incidents.<ref name="ianpage199" /> Dr. White stated regarding the fossil find, "Seldom has a bone been hyped as much as this one."<ref name="ianpage199" /> Anthropologist Dr. Noel Boaz from New York University who made the original classification of the fossil has countered, "I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed."<ref name="ianpage199" /><ref name="herbert1983">W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref> Dr. Boaz described the fossil find and defended his stance regarding the fossil find in the journals ''Nature'', the ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'' and ''Natural History''. However, at a meeting of physical anthropologist his fellow anthropologist were skeptical of the find some stating that at first glance the bone looks nothing like a collar bone.<ref name="herbert1983" /> Dr. White stated that "to be a clavicle, the specimen should have an S...curve, but it does not.<ref name="ianpage199" /> Dr. White also stated the blunder may force a rethinking of theories among evolutionary theorists on when the line of man's ancestors separated from that of apes.<ref name="ianpage199" />  

Dr. Tim White, anthropologist at the University of California-Berkeley, likened the incident on par with the "[[Nebraska man]]" and "[[Piltdown Man]]" incidents.<ref name="ianpage199" /> Dr. White stated regarding the fossil find, "Seldom has a bone been hyped as much as this one."<ref name="ianpage199" /> Anthropologist Dr. Noel Boaz from New York University who made the original classification of the fossil has countered, "I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed."<ref name="ianpage199" /><ref name="herbert1983">W. Herbert, Science News. 123:246 (1983)</ref> Dr. Boaz described the fossil find and defended his stance regarding the fossil find in the journals ''Nature'', the ''American Journal of Physical Anthropology'' and ''Natural History''. However, at a meeting of physical anthropologist his fellow anthropologist were skeptical of the find some stating that at first glance the bone looks nothing like a collar bone.<ref name="herbert1983" /> Dr. White stated that "to be a clavicle, the specimen should have an S...curve, but it does not.<ref name="ianpage199" /> Dr. White also stated the blunder may force a rethinking of theories among evolutionary theorists on when the line of man's ancestors separated from that of apes.<ref name="ianpage199" />