New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’

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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Autori principali: Isabelle De Groote, Linus Girdland Flink, Rizwaan Abbas, Silvia M. Bello, Lucia Burgia, Laura Tabitha Buck, Christopher Dean, Alison Freyne, Thomas Higham, Chris G. Jones, Robert Kruszynski, Adrian Lister, Simon A. Parfitt, Matthew M. Skinner, Karolyn Shindler, Chris B. Stringer
Natura: Articolo
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: The Royal Society 2016-01-01
Serie:Royal Society Open Science
Soggetti:
eoanthropus
human evolution
geometric morphometrics
dna
Accesso online:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160328

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