The Piltdown Man forgery of 1912 highlights the inherent nebulous nature of paleoanthropology. Reconstructing the human origin story is subjected to the availability of distinct variations present in the fossil record. Therefore, when presented with a specimen that was engineered from the fragments of a skull of an anatomically modern human and the jawbone of a modern orangutan, we are left with the impression that the scientific community ultimately accepted the specimen despite ardent opposing viewpoints. This was largely due to the controlled manner in which the specimen was first introduced. The rest of the scientific community was only able to examine a cast reconstruction and not the original remains. Even without access to the original