to my understanding, a man found this tooth, and sent it in to scientist, they studied it and built and entire..... whatever u want to call it, fossile? and then they built him a wife from that tooth, and later the tooth was studied and found to be the tooth of an extinct pig.
ONE scientist thought the tooth might be from an ape (the teeth are similar). An artist for a popular magazine (not a peer reviewed scientific journal) made an imaginative drawing that the caption even referred to as
"...merely the expression of an artist's brilliant imaginative genius."
The majority of scientists of the time didn't even think it might be a primate tooth, let alone a human ancestor.
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Nebraska Man should not be considered an embarrassment to science. The scientists involved were mistaken, and somewhat incautious, but not incompetent or dishonest. The whole episode was actually an excellent example of the scientific process working at its best. Given a problematic identification, scientists investigated further, found data which falsified their earlier ideas, and promptly abandoned them (a marked contrast to the creationist approach).
Creationist Arguments: Nebraska Man
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