The Piltdown Man Scandal: How a Fake Fossil Fooled the World

In this episode, we're talking about the Piltdown Man. Arguably, the biggest scandal in British scientific history.

In 1912 Charles Dawson duped the world by putting the key stage of development of Homo Sapiens right here in Blighty. And, somehow, everybody fell for it.

Join me as I talk through exactly what The Piltdown Man is, how the hoax was uncovered, and a key theory on the perpetrator involving one of Britain's most famous sons.

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Sources:

https://amzn.to/3YyteI8 - Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/library-and-archives/collections/piltdown-man.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Piltdown-man

https://www.livescience.com/56327-piltdown-man-hoax.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/study-reveals-culprit-behind-piltdown-man-one-science-s-most-famous-hoaxes

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