Eoanthropus dawsoni

Translingual

Etymology

From

• Eoanthropus: English eo- (“dawn”) + anthropo- (“man”) + Latin -us
• dawsoni: English Dawson + Latin -i

Proper noun

Eoanthropus dawsoni

1. (taxonomy, fraud, obsolete) Piltdown Man, a fraudulent ancestor to modern humans purportedly discovered in Piltdown, Sussex, England, UK.