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Homo deceptus: Science's Dirty Little Secret
Category: History
Duration: 00:38:56
Publish Date: 2025-11-28 05:01:00
Description:

In 1912, a fossil discovery shakes the scientific world. Piltdown Man is the elusive missing link between humans and their ape-like ancestors. Forty years later, a researcher at the Natural History Museum gets a chance to see the relic for himself and notices something isn't quite right.

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