Nebraska Man -- Hesperopithecus haroldcookii. Discovered in 1922 in the Pliocene deposits of Nebraska by a mysterious "Mister Cook" and made famous by Henry Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History. This tooth was being heavily promoted by the press at the Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 as irrefutable evidence of the animal ancestry of man. A "picture" of Nebraska Man and his wife were published in the London Daily News. All from a tooth ! When other parts of the skeleton were found in 1927, it quickly became clear that it was nothing more than the tooth of an extinct pig !!! From this colossal screw-up, evolution is being taught as fact in public schools.
