The Missing Link That Wasn’t

The video explores the Piltdown Man hoax, a fabricated fossil discovery that misled scientists about human evolution. It discusses the concept of a 'missing link' and how it influenced early evolutionary theories. The video contrasts this with legitimate fossil discoveries like Java Man and Peking Man, which were initially overlooked. It explains how the Piltdown Man was debunked and how evolutionary models evolved from linear to branching trees, and now to the braided stream model, which accounts for gene flow and hybridization in human evolution.

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