In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

Foramen magnum: A large hole at the underside of the skull where the spinal ... "The last common ancestor of apes and humans," in Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate, and Mammal ...

However, now experts say a skull of an ape found in Turkey in 2015 could challenge that long-held notion.