References
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM):
at the Natural History Museum - How the SEM works:
from the Museum of Science - Darwin Centre In-site:
the use of scale in scientific study
Piltdown man
Some people started to have doubts about whether the Piltdown jaw was even human. Click on the picture to find out how scientists interpreted the jaw and compare it with the way we might interpret it today.
Was the jaw from Piltdown Man?
The pieces of skull and the jaw found at Piltdown were celebrated as the remains of our earliest ancestor. They would solve the puzzle about where we came from and how we were related to apes. But some people were more cautious. A few suggested that the ape-like jaw did not come from an early human but from a chimpanzee or orang-utan. As doubts mounted, people like Arthur Underwood, a dentist, decided to put the jaw to some detailed examinations.
