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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Davidson Black previously worked on Piltdown Man, no?

Not exactly, but close. Black was a student of Grafton Elliot Smith at the time Smith was working with Piltdown. G.E. Smith was certainly an ethusiatic supporter of Piltdown, but Black, intrigued as he was with human evolution, appears not to have been entirely convinced. And so he left England and instead went to Asia to look for human ancestors.

50 posted on 06/14/2007 9:08:07 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis
[Osgoode] Davidson Black previously worked on Piltdown Man, no?

[Stultis] Not exactly, but close. Black was a student of Grafton Elliot Smith at the time Smith was working with Piltdown.

This is not exactly true. Black worked on the site with both Dawson and Woodward in 1914 and he discovered the Rhinoceros etruscus teeth. This is mentioned in Woodward's The Earliest Englishman.

62 posted on 06/14/2007 10:16:00 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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