The Mystery Of The Wandering Caveman: The Three Investigators (Paperback)

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Three young sleuths investigate the disappearance of a caveman's bones from a museum and uncover skulduggery at a science foundation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 183 pages
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (August 12, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394852788
• ISBN-13: 978-0394852782
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #825,964 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars No new world hominids, July 31, 2008

By	R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The was a man's bones found in Del Mar in the 1960's who was initially dated to 26000 years ago. At the time that was thought to be wrong and the C14 data was "fudged" badly by scientists in the years that followed.
The case of pre-Clovis new world scholarship is full of cases like this: Dr. Leaky was even threatened for his work with a tool find near the Calico ghost town in the desert! Here we have the fictional drama of a
find that is probably not possible as new world apes are completely and totally different than old world ones.
The divergence was many millions of years before chimps entered the African fossil records.
There are no finds of Neanderthals in the new world either.
So a substitution of an African Hominid for a re-Clovis caveman doesn't hold water scientifically. At the time this was written the established doctrine of Clovis first was being "enforced" by unscientific methods.
The idea of directed mutation in a few generations on intelligence in animals is also not likely.
The young detective Jupiter Jones should have suspected the uneducated employees of the foundation when the African bones were found missing.
This book may be the worst of the Jupiter Jones mysteries that I've read.