Nebraska Man: Peccary, Not Pig (Re: Creationists...)

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gans@scholar.nyu.edu (Paul J. Gans) wrote:
>
> Herb Huston (huston@access1.digex.net) wrote:
> : In article <32276B2E.D84@madison.tec.wi.us>,
> : George Cooper <gwc2406@madison.tec.wi.us> wrote:
> : }At the trial, Clarence Darrow held up the tooth of an extinct pig and
> : }claimed that it was from Nebraska Man!
> :
> : Full bibliographic reference, please.
>
> Clarence Darrow is very well documented. He appeared in this
> movie I once saw. As for the tooth of an extinct pig, I dare
> you to take a tooth from the mouth of a non-extinct pig.

:-)

For the record, though, "Hesperopithecus" turned out to be the tooth of
a peccary (member of the Tayassuidae, the predominently New World suinan
family), not a pig (member of the Suidae, mostly found in the Old World).

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