Unraveling Piltdown : the science fraud of the century and its solution

Walsh, John Evangelist, 1927-2015., author.

Book 1996

In 1913 an amateur fossil hunter and antiquarian named Charles Dawson found in a gravel pit in England parts of the skull of an entirely new species of pre-human. The discovery, soon known as Piltdown Man, caused headlines worldwide trumpeting the claim that the evolutionary "missing link" between ape and man had been found. Controversy quickly arose, with many scientists charging that the jaw and cranium were not related and must have come from...

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ISBN:

9780679444442
0679444440

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xx, 279 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-268) and index

Contents:

Prologue: Unfinished
1. Curtain Falling - a paleontologist retires
2. The Oldest Humanoid - man's brain, jaw of a beast
3. Challenging the Skull - mistake or missing link?
4. The Sheffield Park Find - a matter of probability
5. Curtain Rising - the unthinkable is thought
6. Pursuing Dawson - master of the intermediate
7. List of Suspects - then there were eleven
8. The Writer Accused - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. The Priest Accused - Teilhard de Chardin
10. The Anatomist Accused - Sir Arthur Keith
11. The Wizard of Lewes - a very curious career
12. Return to the Pit - how it was done
Epilogue: Finished?

LCCN:

95009399

Control Number:

62524

UPC:

780679444441

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