Nebraska Man
False ancient hominid species
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Nebraska Man was a name applied to Hesperopithecus haroldcookii, a putative species of ape. 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.
Although Nebraska man was not a deliberate hoax, the original classification proved to be a mistake, and was retracted in 1927.
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