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Piltdown hoax

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Noun1.Piltdown hoax - a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoaxPiltdown hoax - a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax
Piltdown man
primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
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In 1953, he assisted in unmasking the infamous Piltdown hoax.
Fossil sparks: new finds ignite controversy over ape and human ... by Bower, Bruce / Science News
In The Panda's Thumb, a collection of essays on natural history, Stephen Jay Gould attributes the longevity of the Piltdown Hoax (almost fifty years) to the imposition of strong hope on dubious evidence and to the uncritical acceptance of a strange event that reinforced a cultural bias.
Frauds, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience: a course in argumentation by Patton, Martha D. / Academic Exchange Quarterly
Stephen Jay Gould, disgusted by Teilhard's intuition that evolution has a direction, saw him as the leader of a new "cult" and even associated him with the iniquitous Piltdown hoax.
STILL A CLASSIC by Haught, John F. / Commonweal
 
 
 
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