Eoanthropus dawsoni

Translingual

Etymology

From

Eoanthropus: English eo- (“dawn”) + anthropo- (“man”) + Latin -us
dawsoni: English Dawson + Latin -i

Proper noun

Eoanthropus dawsoni

(taxonomy, fraud, obsolete) Piltdown Man, a fraudulent ancestor to modern humans purportedly discovered in Piltdown, Sussex, England, UK.

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