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for two reasons: the attention it generated around the subject of human evolution, and the length of time - 41 years - that elapsed from its alleged initial discovery to its definitive exposure as a composite forgery.

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thumbAt a meeting of the Geological Society of London on 18 December 1912, Charles Dawson claimed that a workman at the Piltdown gravel pit had given him a fragment of the

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