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IN his evening lecture to the British Association at Birmingham on September 16, Dr. Smith Woodward took the opportunity of replying to Prof. Arthur Keith's recent criticisms on his reconstruction of the Piltdown skull. It will be remembered that Dr. Woodward regarded the mandible as essentially that of anape, and restored it with ape-like front teeth, while he determined the brain-capacity of the skull to approach closely the lowest human limit. Prof. Keith, on the other hand, modified the curves of the mandible to accommodate typically human teeth, and reconstructed the skull with a brain-capacity exceeding that of the average civilised European.
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The Piltdown Skull . Nature 92, 110–111 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092110b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/092110b0