Piltdown Man

Witness: Archive 2012 by BBC

Dec 18, 20129:00Society & Culture

In 1912, Britain's top paleontologists were tricked by one of the biggest hoaxes in scientific history - a skull thought to be the "missing link" in human evolution. The remains were discovered in a gravel pit in rural S...

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