2006, Number 2
The node of keith-flack, the man of Piltdown and the bias of the science
Rangel A
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ABSTRACT
Physicians, specially cardiologists, anatomists, and physiologists, know by heart the node of Keith-Flack, described by Arthur Keith and Martin Flack in 1907. Few physicians know the fact that Keith was involved with the Man of Piltdown hoax. Arthur Keith and Martin Flack described the node of Keith-Flack in 1907. Arthur Keith was anatomist, anthropologist, evolutionist, professor of physiology, conservator of the Hunterian of Surgeons museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, university rector, president of the Anthropological Institute, and during more than 50 years, deeply influenced the investigations about the evolution of the human being. In 1895, he made the reconstruction of the skull of the man of Java, and promised to discover the anthropologic history of the British human being. With this in mind, after his scrutiny, Keith considered the fossil of Galley Hill (in reality a modern human being) as belonging to a creature of the Pleistocene. After the revelation in 1912 of the Man of Piltdown, Arthur Keith certified that this fossil was the ancestor of the humanity, and he has been English. In 1953 was discovered the fact that the Man of Piltdown was a deliberate fraud. In this paper I intent to formulate an essay to expose the reasons why Arthur Keith biased the truth of the Galley Hill Man, and Man of Piltdown fossils, falling in a burden error. No investigator is completely free of this error.REFERENCES
Keith A, Flack M. The form and nature of the muscular connections between the primary divisions of the vertebrate heart. (Abridgment of J Anat & Physiol 1907; 41: 172-189). In: Classics of Cardiology. Editors FA Willius, TE Keys. Publisher Henry Schuman, Inc. Dover Publ. Inc. New York, USA. 1941: 741-762.