In 1912 Piltdown Man hit the headlines. Evidence of the evolutionary ‘missing link’ between apes and humans had been found, in England. For the next 40 years this momentous discovery influenced research into human evolution. Then in 1953 Piltdown hit the headlines again, this time revealed as a hoax, a scientific fraud of shocking proportions.
Source: Piltdown Man - the greatest hoax in the history of science? | Natural History Museum
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