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88 relations: American Museum of Natural History, Archaeoraptor, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Keith, Arthur Smith Woodward, Australopithecine, BBC, Beauport Park, Bexhill-on-Sea, Binomial nomenclature, Bone Wars, Bournemouth University, Brain size, British Museum, Bulverhythe, Calaveras Skull, Canine tooth, Cardiff Giant, Charles Darwin, Charles Dawson, Chimpanzee, Chromic acid, Clarence Darrow, Clark University, Coconut, Creationism, DNA, Entombed animal, Eolith, Eurasia, Evolution, Fluorine absorption dating, Fossil, Franz Weidenreich, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries, Geological Society of London, Geology, Gerrit Smith Miller, Grafton Elliot Smith, Hastings Castle, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo sapiens, Horace de Vere Cole, Human evolution, Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, King's College London, Lavant, West Sussex, Lewes, ..., Mandible, Marcellin Boule, Martin Hinton, Miles Russell, Modus operandi, Molar (tooth), Natural History Museum, London, Nature (journal), Nebraska Man, Occipital bone, Omnivore, Orangutan, Otto Schoetensack, Paleoanthropology, Paleontology, Peking Man, Pevensey, Phillip V. Tobias, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piltdown, East Sussex, Pleistocene, Ray Lankester, Raymond Dart, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Scopes Trial, Skull, Suffragette, Talgai Skull, Taung Child, Thinker's Library, Time (magazine), Type (biology), Uckfield, Vertebral column, Wealden, Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, William Plane Pycraft, Zoology. Expand index (38 more) »
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.
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Archaeoraptor
"Archaeoraptor" is the informal generic name for a fossil from China in an article published in ''National Geographic'' magazine in 1999.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.
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Arthur Keith
Sir Arthur Keith FRS (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism.
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Arthur Smith Woodward
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS (23 May 1864 – 2 September 1944) was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish.
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Australopithecine
Australopithecines are generally all species in the related Australopithecus and Paranthropus genera, and it typically includes Kenyanthropus, Ardipithecus, and Praeanthropus.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Beauport Park
Beauport Park is a house near Hastings, East Sussex, England.
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Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea (often simply Bexhill) is a seaside town situated in the county of East Sussex in South East England.
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Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Bone Wars
The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) and Othniel Charles Marsh (of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale).
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Bournemouth University
Bournemouth University (abbreviated BU) is a public university in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, with its main campus situated in neighbouring Poole.
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Brain size
The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy and evolution.
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British Museum
The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
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Bulverhythe
Bulverhythe, also known as West St Leonards, Bo Peep, Filsham, West Marina, or Harley Shute, is a suburb of Hastings, East Sussex, England with its Esplanade and 15 ft thick sea wall.
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Calaveras Skull
The Calaveras Skull was a human skull found by miners in Calaveras County, California, which was purported to prove that humans, mastodons, and elephants had coexisted in California.
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Canine tooth
In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dog teeth, fangs, or (in the case of those of the upper jaw) eye teeth, are relatively long, pointed teeth.
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Cardiff Giant
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in American history.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Charles Dawson
Charles Dawson (11 July 1864 – 10 August 1916) was a British amateur archaeologist, who was initially credited with, and is now blamed for, discoveries that turned out to be imaginative frauds, climaxing with that of the Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni), which he presented in 1912.
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Chimpanzee
The taxonomical genus Pan (often referred to as chimpanzees or chimps) consists of two extant species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo.
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Chromic acid
The term chromic acid is usually used for a mixture made by adding concentrated sulfuric acid to a dichromate, which may contain a variety of compounds, including solid chromium trioxide.
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
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Clark University
Clark University is an American private research university located in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Coconut
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos.
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Creationism
Creationism is the religious belief that the universe and life originated "from specific acts of divine creation",Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The Concise Oxford Dictionary says that creationism is 'the belief that the universe and living organisms originated from specific acts of divine creation.'" as opposed to the scientific conclusion that they came about through natural processes.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.
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Entombed animal
Entombed animals are animals reportedly found alive after being encased in solid rock, or coal or wood, for an indeterminate amount of time.
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Eolith
An eolith (from Greek "eos", dawn, and "lithos", stone) is a chipped flint nodule.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Fluorine absorption dating
Fluorine absorption dating is a method used to determine the amount of time an object has been underground.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Franz Weidenreich
Franz Weidenreich (7 June 1873, Edenkoben – 11 July 1948, New York City) was a Jewish German anatomist and physical anthropologist who studied evolution.
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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (1990) is a book by Kenneth L. Feder on the topic of pseudoarcheology.
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Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Gerrit Smith Miller
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. (December 6, 1869 – February 24, 1956) was an American zoologist and botanist.
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Grafton Elliot Smith
Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, FRS FRCP (15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937) was an Australian-British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory.
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Hastings Castle
Hastings Castle is a keep and bailey castle ruin situated in the town of Hastings, East Sussex.
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist and geologist.
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Homo heidelbergensis
Homo heidelbergensis is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo of the Middle Pleistocene (between about 700,000 and 200,000-300,000 years ago), known from fossils found in Southern Africa, East Africa and Europe.
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Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens is the systematic name used in taxonomy (also known as binomial nomenclature) for the only extant human species.
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Horace de Vere Cole
William Horace de Vere Cole (5 May 1881 – 25 February 1936) was an eccentric prankster and poet born in Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland.
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Human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the evolutionary history of primates – in particular genus Homo – and leading to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, the great apes.
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Joseph Weiner
Joseph Sidney Weiner FRCP (29 June 1915 – 13 June 1982) was a South African-born British human biologist and environmental physiologist.
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Kenneth Oakley
Kenneth Page Oakley (7 April 1911 – 2 November 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, palaeontologist and geologist.
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King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.
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Lavant, West Sussex
Lavant is a civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, north of Chichester.
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Lewes
Lewes is the county town of East Sussex and formerly all of Sussex.
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Mandible
The mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face.
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Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule (1 January 1861 – 4 July 1942) was a French palaeontologist.
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Martin Hinton
Martin Alister Campbell Hinton FRS (29 June 1883 – 3 October 1961) was a British zoologist.
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Miles Russell
Miles Russell, (born 8 April 1967) is a British archaeologist best known for his work and publications on the prehistoric and Roman periods and for his appearances in television programmes such as Time Team and Harry Hill's TV Burp.
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Modus operandi
A modus operandi (often shortened to M.O.) is someone's habits of working, particularly in the context of business or criminal investigations, but also more generally.
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Molar (tooth)
The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.
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Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Nebraska Man
Nebraska Man was a name applied to Hesperopithecus haroldcookii, a putative species of ape.
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Occipital bone
The occipital bone is a cranial dermal bone, and is the main bone of the occiput (back and lower part of the skull).
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Omnivore
Omnivore is a consumption classification for animals that have the capability to obtain chemical energy and nutrients from materials originating from plant and animal origin.
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Orangutan
The orangutans (also spelled orang-utan, orangutang, or orang-utang) are three extant species of great apes native to Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Otto Schoetensack
Otto Schoetensack (July 12, 1850 in Stendal – December 23, 1912 in Ospedaletti) was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, born of financial means.
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Paleoanthropology
Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of archaeology with a human focus, which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural evidence (such as stone tools, artifacts, and settlement localities).
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Paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Peking Man
Peking Man, Homo erectus pekinensis (formerly known by the junior synonym Sinanthropus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus.
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Pevensey
Pevensey is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.
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Phillip V. Tobias
Phillip Vallentine Tobias FRS (14 October 1925 – 7 June 2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man.
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Piltdown, East Sussex
Piltdown is a series of hamlets in East Sussex, England.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Ray Lankester
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist.
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Raymond Dart
Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the province Northwest.
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (abbreviated RCS and sometimes RCSEng), is an independent professional body and registered charity promoting and advancing standards of surgical care for patients, regulating surgery, including dentistry, in England and Wales.
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Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
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Skull
The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.
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Suffragette
Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections.
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Talgai Skull
The Talgai Skull is a human fossil found on the Talgai Station, Queensland, Australia.
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Taung Child
The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus.
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Thinker's Library
The Thinker's Library was a series of 140 small hardcover books published between 1929 and 1951 for the Rationalist Press Association by Watts & Co., London, a company founded by Charles Albert Watts.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached.
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Uckfield
Uckfield is a town in the Wealden District of East Sussex in South East England.
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Vertebral column
The vertebral column, also known as the backbone or spine, is part of the axial skeleton.
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Wealden
Wealden is a local government district in East Sussex, England: its name comes from the Weald, the remnant forest which was once unbroken and occupies much of the centre and north of this area.
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Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark (June 1895 – 28 June 1971) was a British anatomist surgeon, primatologist and palaeoanthropologist, today best remembered for his contribution to the study of human evolution.
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William Plane Pycraft
William Plane Pycraft (13 January 1868 – 1 May 1942) was an English osteologist and zoologist.
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Zoology
Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man
