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Posted by Wombat on April 22, 2009, 11:11 am
LUCY: Nearly all experts agree Lucy was just a 3 foot tall chimpanzee.
HEIDELBERG MAN: Built from a jaw bone that was conceded to be quite
human.
NEBRASKA MAN: Scientifically built up from one tooth, later found to
be the tooth of an extinct pig.
PILTDOWN MAN: The jawbone turned out to belong to a modern ape
PEKING MAN: Supposedly 500,000 years old, but all the evidence has
disappeared
NEANDERTHAL MAN: At the Int'l Congress of Zoology (1958) Dr. A.J.E.
Cave said his examination showed this famous skeleton found in France
over 50 years ago is that of an old man who suffered from arthritis.
NEW GUINEA MAN: Dates way back to 1970. This species has been found in
the region just north of Australia.
CRO-MAGNON MAN: One of the earliest and best established fossils is at
best equal in physique and brain capacity to modern man ... so what's
the difference?
MODERN MAN: This genius thinks we came from a monkey.
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