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What is Science?. Come up with idea. Design experiments. Test hypothesis. Falsifiable. Science is self-correcting. Case in point…tho not speedy. Historical Context. Relationship btwn Neandertals & moderns. Civilized world. Bipedalism & big brain @ same time. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Come up with idea
What is Science?
Design experiments
Test hypothesis
Falsifiable
Science is self-correcting
Case in point…tho not speedy
Relationship btwn Neandertals & moderns
Civilized world
Bipedalism & big brain @ same time
Skull race paralleled space race
Neandertal finds in Germany/France
Historical Context
Predetermined outcome
1911, Eoanthropus dawsonii announced
Excavations @ Piltdown
Thick cranial bones
Small brain case
Foramen magnum
No condyle
Canine
Molars
Nasals
Tools
Fauna
Worked with minimal Neandertals
Many hominids in 20s & 30s
Oakley performs fluoride dating on skull, jaw & gets same date
Scientific Hoax
Later scrapes below brown stain, different ages
Whodunnit?
Doctor of anatomy
Grudge against science
Taxonomic frolics
Lived nearby Piltdown
Knew Dawson
Bought house of dentist
Another Possibility…
Borneo orang
Golf course
Honeymoon
Flint maniac
Lost World author
Orang/man
Map in Archaeology
Overlapping maps
If you’re clever enough and you know your business, you can fake a bone as easily as a photograph
Clues in Lost World
A practical joke would be one of the most elementary developments of man
Clues in Lost World
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle