TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiner,J.S.
TI  - The Piltdown forgery /J.S. Weiner ; with a new introduction and afterword by Chris Stringer
SN  - 9780191505065
AV  - GN282 .P558 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Piltdown forgery
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Fossils
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - history
KW  - Scientific Misconduct
KW  - Biological Evolution
KW  - Hominidae
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Originally published: London; New York : Oxford University Press, 1955; 2; Cover; Contents; Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Piltdown Forgery; Some characters in the Piltdown story; Preface; Note to second impression; Illustrations; 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; Epilogue; Afterword: Piltdown 2003; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; 2; b
N2  - On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion was stunning: the remains, and the accompanying materials that supposedly verified them as ancient fossils, had all been faked. The discovery of Piltdown Man had been announced to the world in 1912 by an amateur fossil hunter, Charles Dawson, and the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museu
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