Fran’s Corner

In 1917, Harold Cook found a tooth in the northwestern part of Nebraska. Some five years later, the tooth was given to Henry Fairfield Osborn, a noted paleontologist, and the President of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Without investigating, Osborn declared the tooth America’s first half man/half ape Hesperopithecus haroldcookii! Osborn was a leading member of the ACLU an...