The Piltdown Man Hoax

Episode 153. Charles Dawson wanted to go down in history as a respected archeologist. But the choices he made left him with a legacy of a fraud and tricked the scientific community for over four decades. 

 

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Sources: 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53pi.html

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3gvpz427po

 

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-problem-of-piltdown-man/

 

Worlds greatest Hoaxes: TV show 

 

https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/charles-dawson/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dawson#Alleged_discoveries

 

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-heidelbergensis