Nebraska Man
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nebraska-man-256-6943069
title:
Nebraska Man
text:
Nebraska Man was a name applied to Hesperopithecus haroldcookii, a putative species of ape. It was heralded as the first higher primate of North America. It was originally described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1922, on the basis of a tooth found by rancher and geologist Harold Cook in Nebraska in 1917.
Although Nebraska man was not a deliberate hoax, the original classification proved to be a mistake, and was retracted in 1927. Hesperopithecus means "ape of the western world", and haroldcookii
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
False ancient hominid species
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Man
date created:
date modified:
2024-03-18T00:21:55Z
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fields total:
13
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15