Topic: Evolution
Quote: \xe2\x80\x98Java man\xe2\x80\x99 was trumpeted around the world as indisputable proof of human evolution. Textbooks and magazines were filled with fanciful reconstructing of \xe2\x80\x98Java man\xe2\x80\x99, who had been given the impressive-sounding scientific name of Pithecanthropus erectus (\xe2\x80\x98erect ape-man\xe2\x80\x99).
Response: Actually all type fossils are given scientific names, and while this may be impressive-sounding to scientific illiterates, it is actually standard procedure. But more about reconstructions later.\n
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