Humans, so the interpretation went, evolved their large brains first, with other characteristics appearing later. In fact, a great deal of evidence points to just the opposite evolutionary pattern....

Humans, so the interpretation went, evolved their large brains first, with other characteristics appearing later. In fact, a great deal of evidence points to just the opposite evolutionary pattern. Piltdown man was officially classified as Eoanthropus dawsoni (“Dawson’s dawn man”) and accepted by the scientific community as the earliest known representative of humans found in western Europe.