Multiple Choice
Human beings evolved from:
A) an ape species that outcompeted the other apes living in the diminishing Miocene forests
B) an ape species that could not compete in the diminishing Miocene forests and was pushed out onto the savanna
C) chimpanzees
D) the catarrhine monkeys
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