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SUBMITTER: De Groote I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5108962 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
De Groote Isabelle I Flink Linus Girdland LG Abbas Rizwaan R Bello Silvia M SM Burgia Lucia L Buck Laura Tabitha LT Dean Christopher C Freyne Alison A Higham Thomas T Jones Chris G CG Kruszynski Robert R Lister Adrian A Parfitt Simon A SA Skinner Matthew M MM Shindler Karolyn K Stringer Chris B CB
Royal Society open science 20160810 8
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: <i>Eoanthropus dawsoni</i> (Dawson's dawn man). The publication generated huge interest from scientists and the general public. However, 'Piltdown man's' initial celebrity has long been overshadowed by its subsequent infamy as one of the most famous scientific frauds in history. Our re-evaluation of the Pi ...[more]