Tag: piltdown
-
PBS Eons: The Unsolved Case of a Fake Human Fossil
PBS Eons has a new episode over on Youtube. This one is about the Piltdown Man hoax, which is still a mystery. This episode is a mystery in the most classic literary sense of the word. It’s a whodunit detective story that spans more than a century – the saga of the Piltdown Man Hoax.
-
PBS Eons: The Missing Link That Wasn’t
A new episode of PBS Eons is out. It is about the Piltdown Man and how our understanding of Evolution has changed since. The myth of the Missing Link–the idea that there must be a specimen that partly resembles an ape but also partly resembles a modern human–is persistent. But the reality is that…
