The Piltdown Hoax | Biology | Quiz

The scientific community uses the _____ process to identify errors or deceptions in scholarly papers.

confidence

green light

laxness

peer review
Confirmation bias is an error that involves accepting all _____ evidence and rejecting any _____ evidence.

contradictory; fossil

contradictory; supporting

supporting; contradictory

supporting; evolution
Which of the following researchers spent many years of his scientific career and retirement searching for more Piltdown Man fossils as a result of the hoax?

Raymond Dart

Charles Darwin

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Smith Woodward
One way the hoax perpetrator fooled researchers was to bury the Piltdown Man bones with mammal fossils and ancient flint tools.

true

false
Which of the following tests was available for analysis of bone in 1912, yet wasnǯt used on the Piltdown specimens at the time?

Nitrogen testing

Fluorine testing

Carbon dating

mtDNA analysis
There were no critics of the Piltdown Man discovery, which is why the hoax was believed for so long.

false

true
Which of the following characteristics made Eoanthropus dawsoni appealing to Britain's scientific community when the discovery was presented in 1912?

The mandible was highly evolved.

The brain size was roughly the same size as a chimpanzee.

It was an upright walker.

It was discovered in England.
The Piltdown Man hoax only had a negative impact on science.

false

true