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The Piltdown forgery / J.S. Weiner ; with a new introduction and afterword by Chris Stringer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Edition: 50th anniversary edDescription: 1 online resource (xix, 212 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191505065
  • 0191505064
  • 1283923750
  • 9781283923750
  • 0191916757
  • 9780191916755
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Piltdown forgery.DDC classification:
  • 569.9 22
LOC classification:
  • GN282.5 .W46 2003eb
NLM classification:
  • 2004 C-154
  • GN 282.5
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Piltdown Forgery / Chris Stringer -- Some characters in the Piltdown story -- 1. A Darwinian prediction -- 2. An impasse -- 3. An hypothesis -- 4. The jaw displaced -- 5. Flint and fauna -- 6. The full extent -- 7. The principals and their part -- 8. Some others -- 9. Lineaments of the forger -- 10. Events reconsidered -- 11. Entanglement -- 12. 'The eye wink' -- 13. The Sussex wizard -- 14. The question of complicity -- Afterword: Piltdown 2003 / Chris Stringer.
Summary: For decades the remains of fossils found in Piltdown, England were believed to come from a "missing link," a creature with a human cranium and an ape's jaw. Dr. Weiner shows how he discovered the truth about these remains, and went on to expose one of the world's greatest scientific frauds.
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Originally published: London; New York : Oxford University Press, 1955.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Piltdown Forgery / Chris Stringer -- Some characters in the Piltdown story -- 1. A Darwinian prediction -- 2. An impasse -- 3. An hypothesis -- 4. The jaw displaced -- 5. Flint and fauna -- 6. The full extent -- 7. The principals and their part -- 8. Some others -- 9. Lineaments of the forger -- 10. Events reconsidered -- 11. Entanglement -- 12. 'The eye wink' -- 13. The Sussex wizard -- 14. The question of complicity -- Afterword: Piltdown 2003 / Chris Stringer.

For decades the remains of fossils found in Piltdown, England were believed to come from a "missing link," a creature with a human cranium and an ape's jaw. Dr. Weiner shows how he discovered the truth about these remains, and went on to expose one of the world's greatest scientific frauds.

English.

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