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Unravelling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and its Solution
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Unravelling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and its Solution

Author(s): Walsh, John Evangelist
Binding: Softcover
Volume Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket: No
Language: English
Publisher Name: TSP
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Place: UK
ISBN: 679444440
Book ID: 000212
Catalogue(s): History - British
385pp plus 8pp monochrome plate illustrations. Indexed. Light edgewear to covers and text block edges & some minor indentations on back. Engagingly presented account of the astonishing Edwardian hoax that was Piltdown Man and how it had society largely convinced of the existence of an new species of pre-human for some 40 years.
Keywords:
piltdown man charles dawson conan doyle skull evolution evolutionary theory history of science fraud hoax

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