Weiner Js (170 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion was stunning: the remains, and the accompanying materials that supposedly verified them as ancient fossils, had all been faked.The discovery of Piltdown Man had been announced to the world in 1912 by an amateur fossil hunter, Charles Dawson, and the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum in London, Arthur Smith Woodward, who had found fragments of a thickset skull and an ape-like lower jaw, along with other bones and stone tools. These fragments pointed to a species of early human who had lived in England a million years ago-a 'missing link' between apes and modern man. But, as Weiner and his colleagues were to reveal in 1953, the skull was a recent one, and the jaw had belonged to an orang-utan. These and many other 'finds' from Piltdown had been deliberately stained and tampered with to make them appear ancient, and the scientific establishment had been well and truly fooled.Widely praised from its first publication in 1955, The Piltdown Forgery remains the classic account of this story and its many players. In this fiftieth anniversary edition, Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London, provides an introduction to this famous story, and an afterword containing the latest detective-work. Ever-increasing technological powers may one day reveal who did what, and why, but until then this remains an engrossing tale of mixed motives, captivating trickery, and competing egos: a tale fit to rival the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (himself a player in this saga) at his best.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion was stunning: the remains, and the accompanying materials that supposedly verified them as ancient fossils, had all been faked.The discovery of Piltdown Man had been announced to the world in 1912 by an amateur fossil hunter, Charles Dawson, and the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum in London, Arthur Smith Woodward, who had found fragments of a thickset skull and an ape-like lower jaw, along with other bones and stone tools. These fragments pointed to a species of early human who had lived in England a million years ago-a 'missing link' between apes and modern man. But, as Weiner and his colleagues were to reveal in 1953, the skull was a recent one, and the jaw had belonged to an orang-utan. These and many other 'finds' from Piltdown had been deliberately stained and tampered with to make them appear ancient, and the scientific establishment had been well and truly fooled.Widely praised from its first publication in 1955, The Piltdown Forgery remains the classic account of this story and its many players. In this fiftieth anniversary edition, Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London, provides an introduction to this famous story, and an afterword containing the latest detective-work. Ever-increasing technological powers may one day reveal who did what, and why, but until then this remains an engrossing tale of mixed motives, captivating trickery, and competing egos: a tale fit to rival the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (himself a player in this saga) at his best.…

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dover Publications 1981 8vo. 214 pages. clean, tight copy.

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PAPERBACK. Condition: Very Good. 0486240754 Cover shows light creases mostly at edges. Pages like new. Retail 4.00.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Dover Edition. Ex-library. 214 pages. From the back cover: ".In 1953 a team of British Museum and Oxford University investigators stunned the scientific world. Eoathropus dawsoni, Charles Dawson's famous manape, was just that--a modern human cranium and the jaw of an orangutan, chemically created and chiseled in the crudest manner. The Piltdown Forgery (1955) is the first and indispensable statement of the case, the classic analysis of the greatest scientific fraud of the century.". Historical Fraud--Evolution.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. xii. + 214pp. + catalogue. Occasional photographs. Unabridged reprint of the 1955 Oxford University Press edition.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL ARTICLE, disbound from journal; in very good condition. Journal.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus. Published by Dover Publications, Inc., 1980. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. Covers have shelf wear.

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Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. There is a frayed spot at the top of the upper corner of the front cover, otherwise VG with lighlty bumped and worn extremities. DJ is VG with a 1/4" tear at the head of the spine, and wrinkling along the top edge.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Near Fine in Good dust jacket with chip to front panel corner.

Paperback. Very Good with no dust jacket; Wear at edges; Mass Market PB. Illustrated by Black and White Photos (illustrator).

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 19, pp. 168-176, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. There is light wear to the spine ends, otherwise the covers look great. The binding is tight. The former owner's name is marked out on the front flyleaf. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. A dust jacket is not included. A dust jacket is not included. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge.…

1955. Physical Anthropology. Oxford University Press. 214p., good ex-library rebound in brown cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii, 214 pp; 9 figs.; errata slip. Original cloth. Very Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.