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Nan told wimp off for hoax with skull
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piltdown man
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thumb|upright=1.6|Group portrait of the Piltdown skull being examined. Back row (from left): F. O. Barlow, G. Elliot Smith , Charles Dawson , Arthur Smith Woodward . Front row: A S Underwood, Arthur Keith , W. P. Pycraft , and Ray Lankester . Note the portrait ...
Usage examples of piltdown man.
He had cited famous historical frauds from the Loch Ness monster to the Piltdown Man.
I suppose a Piltdown man, gazing from under his eye-ridges at the face of a Toynbee or an Einstein would realize only very remotely that this was the face of an evolved member of his own species.
Paleontology had been plagued by fraud, misinterpretation, and personal feuds ever since its beginnings: the Piltdown man, the legendary rivalry of Marsh and Cope, the faked “.
They might easily be dismissed as chimera, counterfeits like Earth's Piltdown Man, if they hadn't been so real.
They were mostly lower than the Piltdown man in the scale of evolution, but in every case definitely human.
Every child knows that the skull of the Piltdown man differs from that of the Cromagnard.