One of these things does not belong…

The jaw has proved to be a veritable bone of contention. Everything pointed to a community of origin with the cranium, except its remarkably primitive character. One American authority, G. S. Miller, Jr., who studied, not the original but a cast, came to the conclusion that the jaw and skull could not possibly pertain to the same individual or even the same genus, but that the former was that of a fossil chimpanzee, to which the technical name of Pan vetus was given, despite the fact that fossil anthropoids were heretofore unknown in England. In this conslusion Mr. Miller has had quite a large American following. The matter has, however, been settled beyond question by the finding of a second specimen of the Piltdown man some two miles distant…

I’m surrounded by thousands of old paleontology/embryology/anthropology texts and finally took a dive today. There will likely be more to come…

(References)

The Evolution of Man. A series of Lectures Delivered before the Yale Chapter of the Sigma Xi during the Academic Year 1921-1922 by R. S. LULL, H. B. FERRIS, G. H. PARKER, J. R. ANGELL, A. G. KELLER, E. G. CONKLIN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922.