Sir Arthur Keith was a British anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism. He was a fellow and later the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was a strong proponent of the Piltdown Man, but conceded it to
![“...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.” quote by Arthur Keith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/02c/arthur-keith-17817_evolution_the-student-of-prehistoric-man-cannot-re_943312.png)
