1 pc Your grandmother found out you\'re taking a course on human evolution and a

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1 pc Your grandmother found out you're taking a course on human evolution and asks, 'did we evolve from chimpanzees? How do you answer her? OA. No; chimpanzees are more closely related to orangutans than to humans. OB.It's complicated; we evolved from tiving apes but not specifically chimpanzees OC. No; while we are most closely related to chimpanzees, humans and chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor and chimpanzees have alse evolving Gjust as the human lineage has) since that split. Grandma, one living species did not evolve from another! OD.Scientists aren't sure; there is no evidence for similarities between humans and apes. OE Yes; chimpanzees are living relics of our evolutionary history, and similarly, chimpanzees evolved from monkeys

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E) Yes chimpanzees are closely related with humans. Humans and chimpanzees have 98.8% similar DNA. One species of ape is about to give rise two distinct linkage, one leads to human and other leads to chimpanzees. Due to changes over generation over generation results in differences between chimpanzees and humans. This diversion occur 6 millions years ago.

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