| 31. | The famous scientific hoax of Piltdown Man was claimed to have come from a gravel pit at Piltdown near Uckfield.
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| 32. | The famous scientific hoax of Piltdown Man was claimed to have come from a gravel pit at Piltdown near Uckfield.
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| 33. | Keith immersed himself in defending the Piltdown man and his reputation suffered greatly after the hoax was exposed in 1953.
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| 34. | Although later proven to be hoax, the Piltdown find encouraged others to search for similar evidence of early man.
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| 35. | The novel also references Piltdown Man, which had not yet been exposed as a hoax at the time of publication.
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| 36. | The Piltdown fraud was nothing short of despicable, an ugly trick played by a warped and unscrupulous mind on unsuspecting scholars,
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| 37. | With the discovery of the Piltdown specimen, actual fossil specimens of the prehistoric australopithecine genus coming from Africa were being ignored.
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| 38. | It is however clear that Dr . Verneau did not intend to create a hoax along the lines of the Piltdown man.
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| 39. | When it was uncovered, Piltdown man was hailed as an exciting evolutionary discovery, and also embraced as a coup for Britain.
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| 40. | Reports on the Piltdown Man, the most famous hoax in all of paleontology, contain some embarrassing rhetorical excesses of their own.
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