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The Piltdown forgery /
For decades the remains of fossils found in Piltdown, England were believed to come from a "missing link," a creature with a human cranium and an ape's jaw. Dr. Weiner shows how he discovered the truth about these remains, and went on to expose one of the world's greatest scienti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Edición: | 50th anniversary ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Piltdown Forgery / Chris Stringer
- Some characters in the Piltdown story
- 1. A Darwinian prediction
- 2. An impasse
- 3. An hypothesis
- 4. The jaw displaced
- 5. Flint and fauna
- 6. The full extent
- 7. The principals and their part
- 8. Some others
- 9. Lineaments of the forger
- 10. Events reconsidered
- 11. Entanglement
- 12. 'The eye wink'
- 13. The Sussex wizard
- 14. The question of complicity
- Afterword: Piltdown 2003 / Chris Stringer.