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I wonder if it will prove to be like the "Nebraska-man" tooth found in 1922? That tooth was connected to an hypothetical jawbone and then to an hypothetical skull and then given a face and features and even fur and by the time it hit the papers there was even a "Nebraska mom. All that from a single solitary tooth. Sometime after the discovery an identical tooth was found by geologist Harold Cook. Only this time the tooth was connected to an actual skull, and the skull was attached to the skeleton, that of a wild pig.

Similar can be said of the science behind "Java man" on the East Indian island of Java in 1891.

One that is different is "Piltdown man" in 1912. That one was a complete fraud. The jaw of an ape was stained and reshaped to make it appear to match a human jaw and The teeth were filed down and misalligned. Esteemed scientists of the day, Sir Arthur Keith and A. S. Woodward affirmed the bones varacity. It wasn't until 1953 after the Nature Conservancy has spent a lot of money to designate the Piltdown site as a national monument that Piltdown man was declared a fake.

Remember Peking man? 1927, China, one lone tooth and 14 monkey skulls.

Time will tell if the latest discovery has any truth to it.