Modern man, the only living species of a once numerous human family, is as definitely pigeonholed in the animal world by taxonomists (biological classifiers) as is Sylvilagus floridanus, the ...

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In 1859, when Charles Darwin, armed with a mass of scientific facts, suggested that man had an ape ancestor, enthusiastic converts to his theory of evolution immediately pictured a ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

And one recently shared illusion has been described as mind-boggling by some, as it appears to show an ape "evolve" into a man in the blink of an eye.

Metro has remade its 1932 Johnny Weissmuller-Maureen O'Sullivan starrer, Tarzan the Ape Man and the story is even more implausible than it was 27 years earlier.