If Some Investigators Think

If Some Investigators Think

If some investigators think

The monkey is Man’s origin,

Nobody yet has found a link

To indicate that they’re akin.

(They can’t find any skeleton

But puzzle out a brittle piece

Of evidence—it’s either one—

But isn’t either one of these.

A molar might provide a hint

It’d been in a mouth of man,

Though it just isn’t so by dint

Since it was of some simian.

So arguing from nothing more,

To say that if it looks the same

As whatsoever they search for,

A Monkey-man out of it came.

The tooth of one orangutan

(By hoax, anthropological)

Was said to ancestral Man,

(In being grafted to a skull)

Turned out to be only a hoax,

But perpetrated forty years

Until it dawned on many folks

It isn’t as the thing appears.

(A fellow with an earnest mind

Already proved a canine tooth

By trickery had been combined

To make this mockery of Truth)

As molars couldn’t be worn down

By chewing motion side-to-side

With the canine of Piltdown Man

Which had been misidentified.

That went to show a missing link

Had but to do with what they say

And what it is they want to think

To let the world appear that way;

So, that by making all they make

They will not give up looking for

That which in fact is their mistake

Of making much of nothing more.