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C) A psychologist believes that exposure to video games predisposes children to violence; but 34 out of 100 children who play video games more than 3 h a day have never been in a serious fight. Q6: What lingering impact did this episode have on the study of human origins? Here are three possibilities (a) How do/should scientists respond in the future after they have been “burned” by such a mistake? (b) Did the forgery, when it was believed to be valid, lead to or reinforce ideas that remain with us after the evidence was dismissed?
In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin had famously suggested Africa as our biological homeland, probably because he favored the linkage to chimpanzees and gorillas. ”) Haeckel himself favored South Asia, or possibly a hypothetical lost continent Fig. 1 Haeckel’s phylogenetic tree with the stages of evolution links leading to humans. Originally published in The Evolution of Man (1897). jpg. Source: Haeckel, Ernst. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny.
However, the Pliocene animal 33 The Question of Dating Table 1 Sample results of chemical tests on the Piltdown finds (from Weiner et al. 1955). 7 remains had considerably more fluorine and the Pleistocene fossils produced mixed results. Oakley interpreted this test as indicating that the gravel was of an indeterminate Pleistocene age and had accumulated and redeposited bones from different time periods. Although it indicated Eoanthropus was not Pliocene in age, the test was unable to discriminate further.