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| The so-called Missing Links of Human Ancestry
1.
Java Man (Pithecanthropus) - In 1890, a skull cap, femur, and two molar
teeth were grouped together as belonging to the same person. The skull
is that of an ape, but the teeth and the femur bone of an human. What
was not published was that they were found 45 feet apart from each
other, along with many other bones of clearly apes, humans, and other
animals. It was a grocery store of parts to construct any animal you
wanted! Java man has since been reclassified as human.
2.
Neanderthal Man (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) - 1856, in Neanderthal,
Germany, a skull cap and limb bones were found. It was grouped with a
set of skeletons found all over Europe that had the following
characteristics: prominent eyebrow ridges, low forehead, long narrow
brain case, protruding upper jaw, a strong lower jaw lacking a chin.
The overall skeletons were short, and stooped-over. Anthropologists
believed it to be a missing link between man and ape because it seemed
to have shuffled along when walking. However, 150 years later, it is
now admitted that these skeletons were of people that suffered from
rickets, and syphilis. Neanderthal Man was just a variation of the
modern human kind with disease!
3. The Piltdown Man
(Eoanthropus). In England, in 1912, a human skull cap and an orangutan
jaw were grouped together, along with a tooth as a hoax to prove
another so-called missing link. It was believed by the scientific world
for over 40 years until tested for age, only to find that the tooth had
been filed down to look human, and the jaw bone stained to look as old
as the skull cap.
4. The Peking Man - all the evidence of this ape-man was lost in World War II, and is not available for examination.
5.
The Nebraska Man (Hesperopithecus) - an entire skeleton of an ape-man
was constructed based upon a single tooth of a supposed missing link.
The tooth was discovered to be of a rare pig found in Paraguay.
6.
Lucy (Ramapithecus) - once widely accepted as the direct ancestor of
humans, it has now been realized that this skeleton is merely an
extinct type of orangutan - not an early human.
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