Human Evolution.

Piltdown Man, The Ancestor Who Never Was Between 1908 and 1912, parts of a skull and of a jawbone were found in a gravel pit at Piltdown in Sussex, England. Many scientists believed the remains to be from a form of human being who lived 250,000 years ago. In 1955, however, it was discovered that the entire find was a fake.

Australopithecus africanus was first described by Raymond Dart in 1925. This ancestral human is notable because it was the first to show distinct evidence of an upright posture. Although most scientists agree that it belongs in the human evolutionary line, there is little agreement as to exactly where in the line it belongs.

"Peking Man" is the popular name for a pre-humanoid species that lived in what is now China between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago. Originally described in 1927 as belonging to a entirely new genus of apes, it is now recognized as being a subspecies of Homo erectus ("upright man").

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

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