Book ID: CBB000045812

Piltdown: A scientific forgery. Based on research by Ian Langham (1990)

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Spencer, Frank (Author)


Natural History Museum, Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 1990
Physical Details: xxvi + 272 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Langdon, J.H. (1992) Review of "Piltdown: A scientific forgery. Based on research by Ian Langham". American Anthropologist (pp. 518-20). unapi

Review Stocking, G.W., Jr. (1992) Review of "Piltdown: A scientific forgery. Based on research by Ian Langham". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 347-48). unapi

Review Lyle, I.F. (1992) Review of "Piltdown: A scientific forgery. Based on research by Ian Langham". Archives of Natural History (pp. 285-86). unapi

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Tobias, Phillip V.
Gould, Stephen Jay
Amy Way
Wheelhouse, Frances
Van Esbroeck, G.
Thomson, Keith Stewart
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Human paleontology
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19th century
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