The Tooth Of One Orangutan

The Tooth Of One Orangutan

The tooth of one orangutan

In being grafted to a skull:

The ancestor of modern man

(Paleoanthropological)

But it was an outrageous hoax

And perpetrated forty years

Until it dawned on many folks

A phoniest of finds appears.

A fellow with an earnest mind

Already proved a canine tooth

By trickery had been combined

Making its 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.