What is "piltdown"

Usage examples of "piltdown".

Doubts persisted that the jaw and skull of Eoanthropus belonged to the same creature, but these doubts weakened when Woodward reported the discovery in 1915 of a second set of fossils about 2 miles from the original Piltdown site.

But although there may be a lot of unconscious fraud in paleoanthropology, the case of Piltdown demonstrates that the field also has instances of deception of the most deliberate and calculating sort.

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.