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How Africa Became the Cradle of Humankind | Hominid Hunting — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:27:12 +0000

[...] in Europe; Java Man (now known as Homo erectus) had been discovered in Indonesia and Piltdown Man (later exposed as a hoax) had been unearthed in England. Although these ancient beings were primitive, they clearly [...]

By: Remo Vescia

Remo Vescia — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:12:30 +0000

Teilhard de Chardin was less involved than you seem to believe in this hoax which was recognised as such by it’s author himself in a famous confession released after his death. Teilhard de Chardin was a young paleontologist, aged 30, abused by amusement by Dawson. He has been much more seriously involved, twenty years later, in China in 1931, with the discovery of the Peking man. I think that it is not very fair to mention his name in the Piltdown misadventure where he did’nt act as author but was only consulted on purpose to be abused. He never gave his caution to such a mistrustful “discovery”. This has been testified by Conan Doyle, later.

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