The dinner was widely reported and helped generate public interest in the Crystal Palace Park’s life-sized models of extinct animals, which opened to visitors the following year.
The use of fluorine dating revealed that the skull and jawbone, which were once believed to be a crucial ‘missing piece’ in the study of human evolution, did not belong to the same individual and were far younger than previously thought.
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