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Piltdown Man article-'The most ancient inhabitant of England

The most ancient inhabitant of England: the newly found Sussex Man. A page from the Illustrated London News by W.P Pycraft, examining the parallels between the Piltdown Man skull and jaw, and those of others. In 1953, the find proved to be a hoax; a combination of the skull of a medieval man, the jaw of an orangutan, and chimpanzee teeth.
1912

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Mr Link, monkey appearing at the Hippodrome 1906

Clever monkey called Mr Link or The Missing Link, who was appearing at The Hippodrome, London in June 1906. Wearing gentlemen's clothing he performed on stage eating, smoking a cigarette and shaking the visitors hands politely.
June 1906

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Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes (endangered)

Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes (endangered), and moustached guenon monkey, Cercopithecus cephus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Carnonkel, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

© Florilegius / Mary Evans