Monday, June 24, 2013

Homo Americanus

Homo Americanus
In 1912 a group of British anthropologists, envious of the discovery of Neanderthal Man by their German competitors, claimed to have discovered the 'missing link' to human evolution in their own back yard with the skull of Piltdown Man. It took forty years to expose this fossil as a fake. In the meantime, however, American anthropologists were keen to track down a missing ancestor of their own...

(1913. A conference room.)

Speaker: (Standing and holding up a strange looking skull) You see how the brain must have been around two thirds of the size of a human brain. If this creature were alive today it would likely enjoy tabloids. And take careful note of the jawbone, which appears to resemble the jawbone of an ass. This would have made him eager to share his opinion on subjects about which he was poorly informed. It is also likely that he subsisted on a diet of apples.
  
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