Word: apeman
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Mischa Auer, of apeman fame in "My Man Godfrey" gives a wonderful bit of entertainment as a drunken Austrian count...
...believe at first that a skull so human could be associated with a jaw so apelike, but present-day consensus is that the fragments actually belonged to one individual. Most anthropologists-notably excepting Sir Arthur Keith-hold that the Piltdown man, like the Pekin man and the Java apeman, were offshoot types which died out and were not on the ancestral line of Homo sapiens. Nevertheless Piltdown appeared to be the oldest near-human inhabitant of England to come to light, and his age was variously estimated at 100,000 to 300,000 years...
...Hava Supai Canyon, Arizona, Archaeologist Samuel Hubbard, of the Oakland (Calif.) Museum, financed by Edward L. Doheny, oilman, picked and shoveled the banks of the Colorado River seeking traces of an "apeman" with nine feet of vertebrae, including tail; twelve-legged dragons; animals answering Biblical descriptions. Digger Hubbard is unique in his profession. He hopes to prove Evolution wrong, the Bible right, about man's origin...
Errata. Subsequent examination of the fossil discovered last autumn at Trinil, Java (TIME, Oct. 11), and reported everywhere as another skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman, showed the relic to be an elephant's knee cap. The "Southwestern Colorado Man," lately deduced from a set of Eocene teeth, was a myth, the teeth having proved to be those of an antique horse.?Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institution...
Professor Heberlein had found what seemed a complete skull, evidently of the same kind of creature introduced to science by the Dubois fragments - pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman. The assumed bones were attached to a spongy stone lump of volcanic origin. The crown was distorted somewhat; the eyesockets bulged abnormally...