In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

providing a new link between ape and man — or so it seemed. Today, however, Piltdown is famed not for a magnificent scientific discovery, but for scientific misconduct that stunted research on ...

Since the discovery of a complete skull on December 2,1929, Zhoukoudian, which had more recently been noted for its production of lime, became world-famous as the "home of the Chinese ape-man." ...