Homo deceptus: Science's Dirty Little Secret
From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 11/28/2025
In 1912, a fossil discovery shakes the scientific world. Piltdown Man is the elusive missing link between humans and their ape-like ancestors. Forty years later, a researcher at the Natural History Museum gets a chance to see the relic for himself and notices something isn't quite right. For a full…
