Editing Piltdown Man (section)

===Early humans===
In 1912, the majority of the scientific community believed the Piltdown Man was the "[[Transitional fossil#Missing links|missing link]]" between apes and humans. However, over time the Piltdown Man lost its validity, as other discoveries such as the [[Taung Child]] and [[Peking Man]] were made. R. W. Ehrich and G. M. Henderson note, "To those who are not completely disillusioned by the work of their predecessors, the disqualification of the Piltdown skull changes little in the broad evolutionary pattern. The validity of the specimen has always been questioned".<ref>"Culture area", in ''International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences'', vol. 3, pp. 563–68. (New York: Macmillan/The Free Press).</ref> Eventually, during the 1940s and 1950s, more advanced dating technologies, such as the [[Fluorine absorption dating|fluorine absorption test]], proved scientifically that this skull was actually a fraud.