Piltdownman

Piltdownman
Pilt·down man (pĭltʹdoun') n.
A supposed early species of human postulated from a skull allegedly found in a gravel bed in about 1912 but determined in 1953 to be a fake constructed from a human cranium and the jawbone of an ape.
  [After Piltdown Common in southeast England.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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