On 21 November 1953, what is now Britain’s Natural History Museum stunned both science and the public by calling the fraud in the case of “Piltdown Man.” Fragments of fossilized jaw, skull, and tooth, unearthed shortly before World War I from gravel beds, 45 miles south of London, were not, as had been believed, the remains […]
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Lucy Dennison on talent and autism
Last week I went to a two day discussion meeting at the Royal Society on talent and autism. It raised a lot of thought provoking questions, not only about autism but also about wider issues such as the working of the brain. Special skills are far more common in autism spectrum disorders than any other […]