Season 6 · Episode 47
Homo deceptus: Science's Dirty Little Secret
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
November 28, 202538m 56s
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Show Notes
In 1912, a fossil discovery shakes the scientific world. Piltdown Man is the elusive missing link between humans and their ape-like ancestors. Forty years later, a researcher at the Natural History Museum gets a chance to see the relic for himself and notices something isn't quite right.
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