Piltdown Man β #4 in Top 10 Worst Scientific Frauds | Top10Grid
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Piltdown Man
Presented in 1912 as the missing link between apes and humans, the Piltdown skull was exposed in 1953 as a forgery combining a medieval human cranium with an orangutan jawbone, misleading paleoanthropology for 41 years.
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