Piltdown Man Hoax

In 1912, the scientist Charles Dawson is believed to have been the person to discover the Piltdown man. Charles Dawson discovered this while on a digging expedition and found a jaw bone that was ape like but had a human ware pattern. Arthur Keith was England leading anatomist. And that this proved his evolutionary theory that humans had big brains before they walked up right. Later scientists now know that the opposite is true. The additional finds he discovered shut down anyone that challenged this discovery of human fossils. No other Piltdown men were discovered Dawson Passed. In 1949 showed that the remains were very young about 100,000 years old. When the teeth were looked at it seems that the teeth were filled down because of the scratch mark it had. The Jaw bone dated back about less than 100 years. The jaw came from a female orangutan, the pieces of the jaw that were broken seemed to be perfectly broken so that the jaw could resemble to a human jaw. Scientists were shocked when they discovered that this was forged.  

Some human faults that come into play would include; National pride, self-interest with wanting the fame and glory of “discovering” something that never existed.

 The positive aspect of the scientific process that was responsible for the revealing of the fraud was disbelief and curiosity. So in 1949 and 1953 there were different test to see how old these remains were. These test were a fluorine test and then they launch the first full scale analysis with better dating methods. Also when looking under the microscope they realized that the teeth were filed down because of the deep scratch marks in the teeth. The jaw was from an orangutan.

I don’t think the human factor could not be removed because we need human curiosity to discovery new information. I think that there should be more people doing the discoveries and if possible constant surveillance on the scientist because of the fraud that could happen. But with new technology forging a discovery will be a lot harder than it was before. 

I think that there should be more information and evidence found about a discovery being claimed.  Because anyone can falsify information but if a large number of test are being done or fossils being found than I would be able to believe a claim. Other than that you can’t trust someone’s word because of over exagerations and lies.