GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Piltdown Man, James Ussher, Transitional Fossil
30 Jan 2019
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Learning objectives: critically assess the differences between fact and non-facts, appreciate the importance of the geographic concept of "region, think critically about how the term "region" can be used. Is the earth perfectly round: the earth is shaped more like an ellipse, and not a perfect sphere. Earth is slightly flatter at the poles in comparison with its circumferences at the equator: the term for the irregular shape of the earth is called a geoid. When the world was created: 1650 - archbishop james ussher calculated that the world was created on sunday, 23. The piltdown man: an example of how bias and error in interpretation paired with illogical reasoning (and in this case, fraud) that can lead to a faulty hypothesis. In the early 1900s, the skull of an early human specimen was found in a gravel pit in. For roughly 40 years, it was believed to be a specimen of the.
