Re: Piltdown dupes

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In article <40jgcs$7e@news.globalone.net>, pnich@globalone.net (Phil
Nicholls) wrote:

| revearll@aol.com (Rev EarlL) wrote:
|
| >Are you quite sure that the Sir Arthur to which you are referring is Conan
| >Doyle? Piltdown was a live issue in my generation in Palaeoanthrpology,
| >and we had to wrestle with E. A. Hooten's taking it hook, line and sinker.
| >But one of the lights who also gave considerable support to the "finds"
| >was Sir Arthur Keith. I personally doubt that Conan Doyle was enough with
| >it in this world to have noticed old Pilty.
| >Earl L. Langguth
|
| Actually, I heard a rumor that Conan-Doyle and Keith hated each other
| and that Conan Doyle actually planted the piltdown remains to humble
| Keith.

Jeez, Phil... you must know some *really old* people to hear a rumour like
that :)

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John "Chris" Wilkins, Assoc. Prof. of Recent Runes, Uni of Ediacara

(Also: Head of Communication Services, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)

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