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Nature Photonics 3, 237 (1 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.48

Combating plagiarism

Almost one hundred years ago in 1912, in a gravel pit in the village of Piltdown, East Sussex, England, the fragments of a skull and jawbone belonging to an early human were found, providing a new link between ape and man — or so it seemed. Today, however, Piltdown is famed not for a magnificent scientific discovery, but for scientific misconduct that stunted research on human evolution for decades.