Nebraska Man: What's Wrong with this Picture?

[AV1611VET]

Its bad advertising for botox users?

LOL

 

[essentialsaltes]

Where did his binomial come from?

HESPEROPITHECUS, THE FIRST ANTHROPOID PRIMATE
FOUND IN AMERICA
By HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN

"The generic name Hesperopithecus signifies
Pithecus of the Western Hemisphere; its specific name haroldcookii is
assigned in honor of the discoverer."

 

[AV1611VET]

HESPEROPITHECUS, THE FIRST ANTHROPOID PRIMATE
FOUND IN AMERICA
By HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN

"The generic name Hesperopithecus signifies
Pithecus of the Western Hemisphere; its specific name haroldcookii is
assigned in honor of the discoverer."

Yes, I'm familiar with that.

Where did his binomial come from?

The newspaper editor? paperboy? ice cream man? meter maid? a shrewdness of zoologists? Bozo the clown? the IAU? the White Star Line? German Zeppelin Company? BP? Morton Thiokol? Chemie Grünenthal? FIGG Bridge Engineers?

Where?

 

[chevyontheriver]

Not really.

"Mr. Forestier has made a remarkable sketch to convey some idea of the possibilities suggested by this discovery. As we know nothing of the creature's form, his reconstruction is merely the expression of an artist's brilliant imaginative genius."

And all that from ONE TOOTH that was eventually shown to belong to a prehistoric pig, with it's whole skeleton right next to where the tooth was found. ONE TOOTH.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Yes, I'm familiar with that.

Where did his binomial come from?

The newspaper editor? paperboy? ice cream man? meter maid? a shrewdness of zoologists? Bozo the clown? the IAU? the White Star Line? German Zeppelin Company? BP? Morton Thiokol? Chemie Grünenthal? FIGG Bridge Engineers?

Where?

From Henry Osborn. A single human being.

 

[AV1611VET]

From Henry Osborn. A single human being.

So one man -- a eugenics advocate -- gives a discovery a binomial; without knowing what the rest of the animal is, and that's how science works?

I would think that, at least, a shrewdness of scientists from different fields would get together and discuss it first.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

So one man -- a eugenics advocate -- gives a discovery a binomial; without knowing what the rest of the animal is, and that's how science works?

I would think that, at least, a shrewdness of scientists from different fields would get together and discuss it first.

And there we have it. You have decided that a single human represents all scientists and then resort to name calling.

 

[AV1611VET]

... and then resort to name calling.

Name calling???

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Name calling???

"...a shrewdness of scientists...."

 

[AV1611VET]

"...a shrewdness of scientists...."

You don't know what a shrewdness is?

 

[sjastro]

This is a drawing of Hesperopithecus haroldcookii.

What's wrong with this picture?

Not using Michael Leunig for the drawing.

 

[AV1611VET]

Not using Michael Leunig for the drawing.

Reminds me of someone.

Daniel 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Daniel 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

 

[sjastro]

Reminds me of someone.

Daniel 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Daniel 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

Leunig had the poet-philosopher Lao Tzu in mind whom he sent up.

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

 

[essentialsaltes]

Yes, I'm familiar with that.

Where did his binomial come from?
Where?

HESPEROPITHECUS, THE FIRST ANTHROPOID PRIMATE
FOUND IN AMERICA
By HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN

"The generic name Hesperopithecus signifies
Pithecus of the Western Hemisphere; its specific name haroldcookii is
assigned in honor of the discoverer."

 

[Bungle_Bear]

You don't know what a shrewdness is?

I do. I also recognise when somebody uses the word in such a way as to be demeaning. You're nowhere near as clever as you imagine.

 

[AV1611VET]

I do. I also recognise when somebody uses the word in such a way as to be demeaning. You're nowhere near as clever as you imagine.

-- Nuts!

 

[Bungle_Bear]

-- Nuts!

As a matter of interest, do you know what it means? Do you have any idea what it meant originally?

 

[AV1611VET]

As a matter of interest, do you know what it means? Do you have any idea what it meant originally?

All I know about it, is that it's a collective noun.

A school of fish, a herd of buffalo, a shrewdness of apes.

 

[grasping the after wind]

In the case of Nebraska Man, that was a little premature, don't you think?

I do.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

In the case of Nebraska Man, that was a little premature, don't you think?

Most scientists working in the field at that time thought so too.