 This reconstruction, by Prof. (later Sir) Arthur Keith, was called "Homo piltdownensis" in reflection of its more human appearance.The find was also considered legitimate by Otto Schoetensack who had discovered the Heidelberg fossils just a few years earlier; he described it as being the best evidence for an ape-like ancestor of modern humans.French Jesuit paleontologist and geologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin participated in the uncovering of the Piltdown skull with Woodward.