The Evolution Of The Piltdown Man

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The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological hoax in which bone pieces were exhibited as the fossilized remains of a formerly obscure early human. These pieces comprised of parts of a skull and jawbone, said to have been gathered in 1912 from a rock pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England.
In 1912 Piltdown Man hit the news. Confirmation of the evolutionary 'missing link ' between primates and people had been found, in Britain. For the following 40 years this earth shattering discovery affected exploration into human evolution.

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