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The Piltdown forgery
Cover; Contents; Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Piltdown Forgery; Some characters in the Piltdown story; Preface; Note to second impression; Illustrations; 1. A Darwinian prediction; 2. An impasse; 3. An hypothesis; 4. The jaw displaced; 5. Flint and fauna; 6. The full exten...
সংরক্ষণ করুন:
| বিন্যাস: | Online Resource গ্রন্থ |
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| ভাষা: | English |
| প্রকাশিত: |
Oxford ; New York
: Oxford University Press
, 2003
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| সংস্করন: | 50th anniversary ed. |
| বিষয়গুলি: | |
| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | lizenzpflichtig |
| লেখক সম্পর্কিত টীকা: | J.S. Weiner; with a new introduction and afterword by Chris Stringer |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | Cover; Contents; Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Piltdown Forgery; Some characters in the Piltdown story; Preface; Note to second impression; Illustrations; 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; Epilogue; Afterword: Piltdown 2003; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T. On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--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 all been faked. The discovery of Piltdown Man had been announced to the world in 1912 by an amateur fossil hunter, Charles Dawson, and the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museu |
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| উপাদানের বিবরণ: | Originally published: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1955. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record Originally published: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1955 |
| দৈহিক বর্ননা: | Online Ressource (xix, 212 p.) ill. |
| আইসবিএন: | 9780191505065 0191505064 |
