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On This Day in (Forgotten?) History

On November 21, 1953, evidence was released that the Piltdown Man skull was a hoax.  Zoologists and palaeontologists concluded that the jaw bone was that of an ape and the skull of a human.  German anthropologist Franz Weidenreich exposed the … Continue reading

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