Unearthed! Piltdown Man

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Piltdown Man is one of the world’s most infamous instances of scientific fraud, and it derailed the study of evolution for decades. How exactly did scientists in 1912 fall so completely for a hoax?

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1:46.7	I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Frye.
1:49.7	So the Pilt Down Man, one of the world's most infamous instances of scientific fraud,
1:56.7	and in August of 2016, which is this year,
2:01.7	researchers published a paper in Royal Society Open Science
2:05.7	that concluded that it was the work of a single hoaxer,
2:08.7	so rather than rolling that into our unearthed episodes,
2:13.7	which are just around the corner, we are doing an entire unearthed episode just on this.
2:20.7	We are going to talk about the Pilt Down Man.
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