3. Nebraska "man" was never considered to be anything but an athropoid ape. It was never claimed to be a human ancestor.
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Nebraska Man - Wikipedia
"and 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;
haroldcookii was given as the species name in reference to Cook. The discovery was made around ten years after the finding of Piltdown Man,
another possible human ancestor, that turned out to be a hoax."
So both were considered possible human ancestors and both were hoaxes.....
".....more closely related to humans than to other apes."
And it was built up contrary to your claims....
"Only a few months later, an article was published in
Science announcing the discovery of a manlike ape in North America."
In 1922, up until 1927.... It was promoted so much so that they felt compelled to make a retraction. Something not necessary for things that get no attention.....
"The earlier identification as an ape was retracted in the journal
Science in 1927."
"During the same time period as the discovery and examination of the tooth, the teaching of evolution in public schools was under fire in the Scopes trial. The prosecution was led by William Jennings Bryan. Leading up to the trial, Osborn and Bryan were engaged in a back-and-forth debate on the validity of the other's beliefs. However, at the trial, Osborn remained quiet on the subject of Nebraska man. The evidence was starting to build up against
Hesperopithecus, and Osborn did not want to put the defense at risk of losing."
no, instead they just used the fake Piltdown Man.....