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sock-ness-monster · 2 years

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I'm so sorry but I'm doing some reading about the Piltdown man for a lab report and I found this picture and-

It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible goose about to perpetuate a paleoanthropological hoax

#it was the first thing that came to mind #the piltdown man #piltdown man #anthropology #paleontology #horrible goose #untitled goose game #goose meme

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teaboot · 10 months

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My terminal manic pixie dream girl trait is that I like collecting antique science textbooks that have wrong or missing information. My favourite one has an entry for the Piltdown man as an example of ancient man noting that "experts are debating age and authenticity"

#Piltdown man was a hoax btw #An orangutan jaw stuck to a hominid or primate skull #It's now a rather famous hoax #But they didn't KNOW #And they were curious #And I love that

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eilooxara · 2 months

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Welp I learned a bit about anthropological hoaxes and reflected on the appeal of forgery as an art form, so I guess the whole parody song thought was worth it and I ought to at least do a couple verses.

Piltdown Man

He's got the jaw of an orangutan

I bet he's never had a mincemeat pie

Even though he's just an English guy

I'm gonna try for a Piltdown Man

I'll be giving him a nice dark tan

I'll dye his bones with this handmade ink

And cause they're looking for a missing link

That's what they'll think

#Piltdown Man #eilooxara shitposts #Shitposts that required background research

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progynova420 · 1 year

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The Piltdown Man Fandom is DYING

Reblog if you are a true

Pilthead

#piltdown man #fandom #fandom culture #fandom things #fandom edit #pilthead #english history #edits #my edits #fanfic #hoax #reality

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majingojira · 8 months

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I think my favorite aspect of this stop motion short is the fact that the other animals used in it have "Paleofail" designs.

#Stop Motion #Bluworm #The Lone Animator #Paleoart #paleontology #Retrosaurs #Piltdown Man #Uintatherium #Stegosaurus #Youtube

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beautifulcorpses · 1 year

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Before April 1st becomes April 2nd, and in the spirit of #BeautifulCorpses , I wanted to present to you a fine example of #NotFakeScience #AprilFools !

Folks, meet what once was considered a very early member of the Homo genus: Homo diluvii testis !

Yeah, so... It’s known now to have been a giant Miocene salamander, dubbed Andrias scheuchzeri. An early representative of the species including the Chinese giant water salamander, amongst others.

But when it was first uncovered in 1726, Swiss physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer believed a man looked at him from the rock - its name literally translated to “Man, witness of the Deluge”.

Perhaps it could be compared to the Piltdown Man in England, in that it took a lot longer than what’d be normal for someone to call bullshit - 32 YEARS. That’s like an entire generation of people figuring that this was a person.

From there, it flip-flopped from consideration as a catfish, a lizard, and finally a salamander - but never again a man. And thank God, honestly.

Some have claimed that, given the fragmentary appearance of the fossil, it could’ve been mistaken for a VERY destroyed human skeleton... though I wonder how much Mr. Scheuchzer might’ve been kidding, or at least not been serious...

I mean the guy was a DOCTOR

The lack of serious thought might’ve been endemic to the science at the time. For another example of this, we can point to the first dinosaur fossil ever discovered and described in Western science, Scrotum humanum.

(to whit: this was a piece of a leg bone of Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur described as such in the science. In a world where the first name managed to stay...)

I’ll close with this incredible interpretation by C. M. Koseman for “All Yesterdays”, of what a humanoid with A. scheuchzeri’s proportions would’ve *really* looked like...

Happy #AprilFoolsDay everybody!!! Hope you enjoyed this brief #NotFakeScience adventure

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falst · 1 year

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I hate the British

#this is about. the piltdown man hoax

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the-nerd-beast · 1 year

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#inside joke #anthropology #piltdown man #untitled goose game #meme

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lindahall · 1 year

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Kenneth Oakley – Scientist of the Day

Kenneth Oakley, an English anthropologist, died Nov. 2, 1981, at the age of 70.

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functionalechoes · 7 months

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I will begin this mess of muse musings with the pair that are youngest of my muses: Jake and Marco of the Animorphs.

I have been a borderline obsessive Animorphs fan since around the time that book 2 came out. One of the very few non-traumatic memories I have prior to the accident that scrambled my memory is seeing the Scholastics Book Fair Flyer and instantly being enamored with the cover of a girl changing into a cat.

I had no idea I was about to jump headlong into a nearly 30 year (so far) love of child soldiers, guerilla warfare, and trauma as far as the eye can see.

I have a lot of feelings about those "teenagers with a deathwish" (twelve. someone calculated it out in a post I've long since lost and they're twelve at the start). I have a lot of thoughts about all of the characters but Marco and Jake have consumed my attention the most. Those are my boys. The boy general and his right hand. The tactician and his guiding light.

I have roleplayed as Marco for just about twenty years now. Jake hits twelve years this month, if I go by the old blog's first post. And this week I plan on writing about one or the other or the two of them together every day.

I'd apologize for the babble that is to come, but I'm not sorry. I am in fact quite gleeful about writing about them again. Maybe I'll even reblog some of the stuff on Jake's old blog. Marco's history goes back to livejournal and IRC/skype, so it's a bit harder to revive than Jake's.

#echo: tiger on board #echo: the piltdown man #echo: the Animorphs #ooc post #musing on muses

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alienspeed · 8 months

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#piltdown man..... 2!!!!

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wisdomfish · 1 year

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40-Year Hoax: The Piltdown Man

Evolution is truly built on a sandpit of lies for the Piltdown man is not the only example of such scientific hoaxes the theory used to support itself.

#piltdown man #evolution #charles darwin #hoax #charles dawson

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mhaccunoval · 1 year

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[stefon voice] this story has everything:

☝️ old timey science drama

✌️ workplace politics

👎 and even an accusation of sir arthur conan doyle

#pant rambles #eons: mysteries of deep time #piltdown man #sorry i needed the emojis to convey his hand gestures

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zooophagous · 1 year

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Illustration for a writing piece about Piltdown Man, which was a paleontology hoax depicting an alleged human ancestor species.

These human cousins and A. Afarensis don't look terribly impressed.

#art #paleontology #paleo art

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ancientorigins · 2 months

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For a long time in archaeology, and even in the popular media, there was discussion of a missing link in the archaeological/paleontological fossil record between apes and humans. In 1911, Englishman Charles Dawson made the dramatic announcement that he had found the link in the 500,000-year-old bones of the Piltdown man, dubbed “the first Englishman.” The discovery led to extensive study of Piltdown Man, and debate about its implications lasted for decades. However, in the early 1950s, following the development of scientific dating methods and the discovery of new evidence, it was proved that the Piltdown man was all just a hoax – it became one of the biggest scandals in archaeological history.

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alllisborealis · 3 months

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reading through comics for the first time :)

YOUNG JUSTICE #1

so much to unpack here - killer cockroaches?? batarang hand?? beard??

it took me waaayyyy too long to realize this meant screwball

he's totally a visual thinker which i didn't know was a thing until i looked it up - it's hard for me to understand how some people don't have a constant internal monologue

this is a real niche thing that barely correlates to this so i don't know why they're bringing it up unless the author just recently learned about it and wanted to include it cause i do that all the time

piltdown man wikipedia