The Piltdown forgery
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 conclus...
| Основен автор: | Weiner, J. S. 1915-1982. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Издание: | 50th anniversary ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=516784 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Piltdown forgery. |
Съдържание:
- 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.