Page 86 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Un til shown to be a for gery, Pilt down Man was ex hi bi ted
in mu se ums and adorned the co vers of "sci en ti fic" pub li ca -

ti ons for 40 years.

discovered in their native soil,
was an ancestor of their race.
The considerable size of the
cranium was interpreted as
an indication that "English in-

telligence" had evolved very early. In the fol-
lowing years, hundreds of theses were written on
Eoanthropus dawsoni, and the fossil was displayed in the
British Museum, where hundreds of thousands of visi-
tors were persuaded as to the "truth of human
evolution."

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