The Piltdown forgery

"On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists - including the author of this book, Joseph Weiner - described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion was stunning: the remains, and the accompanying materials that supposedly verified them as ancient fossils, had been faked." "The discovery of Piltdown Man had been announced to the world in 1912 by an amateur fossil hunter and the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum in London, who had…