Seriously?? How "in character" of you to raise a long dead thread.
From the Wikipage at
Nebraska Man - Wikipedia (first page of a google search, mind you):
"An illustration of
H. haroldcookii was done by artist
Amédée Forestier, who modeled the drawing on the proportions of "
Pithecanthropus" (now
Homo erectus), the "
Java ape-man," for the
Illustrated London News. Osborn was not impressed with the illustration, calling it: "a figment of the imagination of no scientific value, and undoubtedly inaccurate".
[2]"
Nope. Also from the Wiki article at
Nebraska Man - Wikipedia (first page of that google search I mentioned earlier):
"
Retraction
Restoration of what
Prosthennops may have looked like in life
From its initial description,
Hesperopithecus was regarded as an inconclusive find by a large portion of the scientific community. Examinations of the specimen continued, and the original describers continued to draw comparisons between
Hesperopithecus and apes. Further field work on the site in the summers of 1925 and 1926 uncovered other parts of the skeleton. These discoveries revealed that the tooth was incorrectly identified. According to these discovered pieces, the tooth belonged neither to a man nor an ape, but to a fossil of an extinct species of
peccary called
Prosthennops serus. The misidentification was attributed to the fact that the original specimen was severely weathered. The earlier identification as an ape was retracted in the journal
Science in 1927.
[3]"
So, it never made it past peer review. let alone into high school text books...
