We Finally Know Who Forged Piltdown Man, One of Science’s Most Notorious Hoaxes

When Piltdown Man was unveiled before a meeting of London geologists in 1912, he was heralded as paleoanthropology’s “missing link,” the long-sought transitional form between modern humans and our great ape ancestor. He had a smallish skull, a chimp-like … Discuss

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