it),” then the perversity is Gould’s. 
Might he not have thought of another 
explanation more in accord with Teil- 
hard’s great reputation as an honest 
scientist? That, conceivably, insight 
and experience were behind Teilhard’s 
attitude? 
In 1929 Teilhard went to Peking 
just in time to become involved in 
the discovery of Peking man. He could 
study the remains prior to publication 
and discuss the question of human 
evolution and Piltdown man with Da- 
vidson Black and later with his suc- 
cessor, Franz Weidenreich. The latter 
gave an outspoken verdict about Pilt- 
down. He, in 1932, proved the man- 
dible to be that of an orang; Fried- 
erichs, one of his pupils, even sug- 
gested a special genus of anthropoids 
for that find — Boreopithecus. Already 
earlier G. Miller, in 1915, had thought 
the jaw belonged to a chimpanzee, 
and so did others, such as Remstrdm 
(1916), Gregory (1916), and Lonshos- 
sek (1920). 
That the Piltdown mandible belongs 
to an ape, and the canine he found 
as well, must have been a personal 
blow for Teilhard because he had 
found the canine, in August 1913, “in 
the rain-washed gravel spread” on the 
surface, while at the same time Daw- 
son and Smith Woodward were ex- 
cavating nearby. Therefore, Dawson 
was around, and knowing the history 
of the finds (Weiner) there could be 
no doubt that Dawson must have 
“planted” the tooth on purpose, ul- 
timately to be discovered by Teilhard. 
It was this find by which Teilhard 
was inadvertently dragged into the 
Piltdown fraud. 
Teilhard had ample knowledge of 
the Pleistocene fauna and naturally 
must have known that a Pleistocene 
ape could for climatological and eco- 
logical reasons not have existed in Eu- 
rope. Therefore, he must have felt de- 
ceived and cheated. He loathed, no 
doubt, to suspect anybody and did 
not want to have anything to do with 
the case. After the forgery had been 
disclosed and a special exhibition had 
been presented by the British Mu- 
seum, Teilhard did not even want to 
look at it. He had had enough of Pilt- 
down. This, in contrast to Gould, is 
my explanation of Teilhard’s changed 
attitude in the Piltdown case. 
About the alleged stone implement, 
Gould writes, “I also have some doubt 
about Teilhard’s flint, for it is the 
only Piltdown item indubitably found 
in situ. Now, if we look into Weiner’s 
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