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Why was Dart’s insistence that the Taung child was a hominin and not an ape originally dismissed?

The associated jawbone turned out to be a hoaxed fossil made with a modern ape jaw.

It did not support contemporary ideas about humans originating in Europe.

The child-like skeleton seemed too small to be capable of supporting a bipedal style of locomotion.

Evolutionary theories at the time did not account for bipedalism evolving before increased cranial capacity

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