ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homo Erectus, Xiaochangliang, Infrared Spectroscopy
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Test will have some short answer questions. Will need to know dates in a ball-park range. Darwin"s famous image shows the branching and splitting of species over time. Recall from jhe the wedging that opens up species. Eoanthropos: existed separately from other human ancestral fossils. This skull looked very much like modern people. It led people to wonder if this was the true ancestor of people. The research from the piltdown skull became extremely hot. People investigating the fossil published works in the literature and this information was taught in schools and universities. It was a huge deal: turns out that the piltdown skull was a fraud. How and why did this hoax work so well: so, fraud is one big problem. It is the antithesis of science: there is also error. There is a lot of pressure to never be wrong. But, if you can"t be wrong, then you can"t really do science.
