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Henry Fairfield Osborn and the Tragic Legacy of Piltdown Man

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurDecember 13, 20161 Comment

Piltdown man’s dramatic entry into textbooks starting in the mid-1930s was a reactionary effort by Henry Fairfield Osborn to infiltrate the debate on human origins and freeze in place his favored ideas of human evolution and the necessity of eugenic management. The success of his strategy is an American tragedy.

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