All of the following are reasons for the widespread acceptance of Dawson's Dawn Man (or Piltdown Man) as the missing link between apes and humans except:
a. desire to uncover the unknown missing link.
b. understanding based in Darwin's theory that the missing link would be half-ape and half-human in anatomicaltraits
c. desire to include England in the story of early human evolution.
d. expectation that the defining characteristic of humans was the large brain.
e. knowledge that early fossilization was common in certain parts of England.
e
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