Piltdown Man was discovered in 1912. It was exposed as a hoax in 1953. What took so long? This was a 40 year long hoax. Not bad for a hoax.
From the very beginning, there were skeptics concerning Piltdown Man. Skeptical anthropologists noted that Piltdown Man was an aberration from the very beginning. It would take a lot more evidence (for these anthropologists anyway) for them to accept the Piltdown "fossil."
Further, when other anthropologists tried to reconstruct the Piltdown fossil, they arrived at different results (remember, one of the hallmarks of the scientific process is that the results should be reproduceable). Keep in mind these other anthropologists were using the same skeleton fragments, but the results were not the same.
An anatomist from the very beginning was able to show that the skull was a modern human skull with an orangutan jaw with filed teeth. But, because he was not an anthropologist, his findings were ignored.
Finally, by 1953, other finds in the evolutionary process (other fossil finds) clearly showed that Piltdown Man was a hoax.
More tommorrow.
http://www.tauskvega.com
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From the very beginning, there were skeptics concerning Piltdown Man. Skeptical anthropologists noted that Piltdown Man was an aberration from the very beginning. It would take a lot more evidence (for these anthropologists anyway) for them to accept the Piltdown "fossil."
Further, when other anthropologists tried to reconstruct the Piltdown fossil, they arrived at different results (remember, one of the hallmarks of the scientific process is that the results should be reproduceable). Keep in mind these other anthropologists were using the same skeleton fragments, but the results were not the same.
An anatomist from the very beginning was able to show that the skull was a modern human skull with an orangutan jaw with filed teeth. But, because he was not an anthropologist, his findings were ignored.
Finally, by 1953, other finds in the evolutionary process (other fossil finds) clearly showed that Piltdown Man was a hoax.
More tommorrow.
http://www.tauskvega.com
-------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>gene
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