Unravelling Piltdown: The Science Fraud Of The Century And Its Solution
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In one of history's most audacious acts of scientific deception, a carefully constructed forgery fooled the world's leading palaeontologists for over forty years — Unravelling Piltdown is the definitive account of how it was done, and who did it. John Evangelist Walsh chronicles the infamous Piltdown Man hoax, in which a fraudulent skull — planted in a Sussex gravel pit in 1912 and heralded as the missing link in human evolution — sent an entire scientific community down a decades-long blind alley. With the precision of a detective and the narrative drive of a seasoned storyteller, Walsh reconstructs the crime, the players, and the extraordinary process by which modern science finally exposed the truth. Walsh's investigation cuts through a century of speculation and accusation to present a compelling, evidence-based conclusion about the perpetrator's identity — a conclusion that is as shocking as it is persuasive. Situating the hoax within the fierce intellectual rivalries and nationalistic pride of Edwardian science, the book illuminates how ambition and institutional bias can corrupt even the most rigorous of disciplines. Masterfully written and meticulously researched, this is a work that will leave any reader questioning just how much of what we know has been built on foundations of sand.
Author: John Evangelist Walsh
Format: Paperback
Published: 1997, TSP
Genre: True crime
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In one of history's most audacious acts of scientific deception, a carefully constructed forgery fooled the world's leading palaeontologists for over forty years — Unravelling Piltdown is the definitive account of how it was done, and who did it. John Evangelist Walsh chronicles the infamous Piltdown Man hoax, in which a fraudulent skull — planted in a Sussex gravel pit in 1912 and heralded as the missing link in human evolution — sent an entire scientific community down a decades-long blind alley. With the precision of a detective and the narrative drive of a seasoned storyteller, Walsh reconstructs the crime, the players, and the extraordinary process by which modern science finally exposed the truth. Walsh's investigation cuts through a century of speculation and accusation to present a compelling, evidence-based conclusion about the perpetrator's identity — a conclusion that is as shocking as it is persuasive. Situating the hoax within the fierce intellectual rivalries and nationalistic pride of Edwardian science, the book illuminates how ambition and institutional bias can corrupt even the most rigorous of disciplines. Masterfully written and meticulously researched, this is a work that will leave any reader questioning just how much of what we know has been built on foundations of sand.