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Kenneth Oakley
(7 Apr 1911 - 2 Nov 1981)
English physical anthropologist, geologist and paleontologist who developed a method to date fossils bones by measuring their fluoride level.Oakley become famous in 1953 for exposing a forgery: a “Piltdown Man” skull had been “unearthed” in 1912, in Piltdown, England.
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Science Quotes by Kenneth Oakley (1 quote)
The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.
— Kenneth Oakley
'The Earliest Tool-makers', Antiquity (1956), II 7, 4.
See also:
- 7 Apr - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Oakley's birth.
- The Piltdown Forgery, by J. S. Weiner. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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