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Word: haroldcookii (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other specialists at the museum examined the tooth with naked eye, microscope and x-rays. It belonged, they decided, to a manlike beast and seemed the first indication that such animals had once existed in what is now the U. S. They called the specimen Hesperopithecus ("evening ape") haroldcookii. Fundamentalists scoffed at this as at all other evolutionary data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nebraska Tooth | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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