But far from being a humiliation to paleoanthropology, Piltdown is a marvelous example of how science works: the constant interplay between evidence and interpretation.
The Human Genome Project is a marvelous example of "big science," as are the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Abazajian et al. 2009) and the Tree of Life Web Project (Maddison et al. 2007).
A marvelous example of Tzetzes at work is his book, "Allegories of the Iliad" (published for the first time in Greek and English translation in 2015 by Harvard University Press).
It is the most marvelous example of a work of art in progress".
The work is a "marvelous" example of how theory can point to an experiment, says Didier de Fontaine, a materials scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has done pioneering work in calculating the properties of complicated materials from the ground up.
"Archaeopteryx has always been seen as a marvelous example of a transitional species," said Helen James, an ornithologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
"Cymbeline," not one of Shakespeare's best-known plays, is, in the hands of this talented troupe, a marvelous example of Shakespeare as an evening's entertainment -- full of his familiar tricks, such as cross-dressing, jealous husbands and confused identities.
For the most part, this system is a marvelous example of capitalism at work.
"It's a marvelous example of technology demonstrated at an incredibly early stage," says Frank Bates, a polymer chemist at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
"I think Widmar is a marvelous example of how an idea can be introduced and have enormous ramifications," McConnell says.
