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    Re: BigBangologist's Ph.D w' Piltdown Man's deed to Golden Gate Bridge.

    Dear Dr Clark Storer Gould,

    Where does the reference to Piltdown Man come in ... or is it purely allegorical to improve the rhetoric ??

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    Re: BigBangologist's Ph.D w' Piltdown Man's deed to Golden Gate Bridge.

    Quote Originally Posted by Graybeard View Post
    Dear Dr Clark Storer Gould,

    Where does the reference to Piltdown Man come in ... or is it purely allegorical to improve the rhetoric ??

    cool bananas ... greg
    Perhaps the reference is important in suggesting that we are looking in the wrong direction, being led astray?



    Relative importance
    The Piltdown man fraud had a significant impact on early research on human evolution. Notably, it led scientists down a blind alley in the belief that the human brain expanded in size before the jaw adapted to new types of food. Discoveries of Australopithecine fossils found in the 1920s in South Africa were ignored owing to Piltdown man, and the reconstruction of human evolution was thrown off track for decades. The examination and debate over Piltdown man led to a vast expenditure of time and effort on the fossil, with an estimated 250+ papers written on the topic.

    The fossil was sufficiently influential for Clarence Darrow to introduce it as evidence in defense of Scopes during the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. Darrow died in 1938, more than ten years before Piltdown Man was exposed as a fraud.

    The hoax is often cited (along with Nebraska Man) by creationists as an example of the dishonestly or credulity of biologists that study human evolution.

    The notoriety of the hoax remains strong and in November 2003, the Natural History Museum in London held an exhibition to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its exposure.
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