The ineffable stupidity of saying we know when we do not know. Just as we are slowly learning that primitive men are not necessarily savages, so we must learn to realize that the early men of the Ice Age were neither brute beasts nor semi-apes nor cretins. The American authority, T.D. Stewart, rightly pointed out in 1948 the impossibility of reconstructing hair, eyes, nose, lips or facial expression. The probabilities are that the expression of early man was not less benign than our own,' he wrote. But the man in the street is not told that fact.
Every drawing is wrong.
Every single book on anthropology, every article on the evolution of man, every drawing of man's family tree will have to be junked. They are apparently wrong. Apes do not stand erect and man does not stand partly erect, so Huxley gave them both the same stance. But Huxley placed more emphasis on similarities in his illustrations than dissimilarities, because he wanted to show that the organization of the human skeleton is, in principle, that of an anthropoid. Skewed and twisted descriptions stand in place of solid evidence.