Anthropology’s Greatest Hoax

The video explores the story of Charles Dawson and the Piltdown Man hoax, a fabricated fossil discovery that misled the scientific community for decades. It highlights the context of early 20th-century fossil discoveries and the biases that influenced scientific beliefs. The hoax was eventually exposed in 1953, revealing the importance of skepticism and the dangers of confirmation bias in science. The video concludes with a discussion on the need to recognize and address biases in scientific research.

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