In the last cultural/scientific WI for today, what if the Australopithecines had been discovered before the Piltdown Man hoax? For a long time palaeoanthropologists rejected the idea that humans might have arisen out of Africa. If the more "primitive" ape-men are known earlier on, how does this impact palaeoanthropology and cultural depictions of prehistoric proto-humans? What impact might this have on racism and Social Darwinism? Could this lead to earlier Jane Goodall-style study of African apes and concurrently ape conservation?