Can I read Piltdown : a scientific forgery ; based on research by Ian Langham (1942 - 1984) on EtoBox?

Piltdown : a scientific forgery ; based on research by Ian Langham (1942 - 1984) by Frank Spencer; Ian Langham is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Piltdown : a scientific forgery ; based on research by Ian Langham (1942 - 1984) about?

<p>On the night of December 18, 1912, a packed meeting of the Geological Society of London listened to Charles Dawson, a rural lawyer and an amateur geologist, make an exciting announcement: he had found evolution's missing link in an old gravel pit near Piltdown Common. Together with Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the British Museum and a noted authority on prehistoric archaeology, Dawson had discovered the shattered remnants of a thick, human-like skull together with a simian jaw—the fossils of a strange creature halfway between apes and human beings. Though debates raged over reconstructing Piltdown Man from these remains, few doubted their authenticity—and it was not until forty years later that further tests proved they were an elaborate fake.<br> Written by anthropologist Frank Spencer, <b>Piltdown</b> tells the story of this incredible hoax, the greatest forgery in the history of modern science. Spencer begins by taking us back to the debates in Edwardian Britain over the antiquity of <b>Homo sapiens</b> and the public excitement over the search for the missing link between apes and human beings. He recounts Dawson's initial "discovery" of the shattered skull,

Who reads Piltdown : a scientific forgery ; based on research by Ian Langham (1942 - 1984)?

Author

Frank Spencer; Ian Langham

Publisher

Natural History Museum Publications

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198585237

Category

health

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Psychology

Rating

4.4 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14