New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’
In 1912, palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and amateur antiquarian and solicitor Charles Dawson announced the discovery of a fossil that supposedly provided a link between apes and humans: Eoanthropus dawsoni (Dawson's dawn man). The publication generated huge interest from scientists and t...
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The Royal Society
2016-01-01
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| Schriftenreihe: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Zugang: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160328 |