The best-accepted hypothesis for the dispersal of African monkeys to the New World is that
A) platyrrhines evolved from early primates that migrated to South America from North America.
B) platyrrhines evolved from anthropoids in Africa that migrated to South America by crossing a narrower Atlantic Ocean, or via Antarctica.
C) platyrrhines evolved from anthropoids in Asia that migrated across the Pacific to South America.
D) Old and New World anthropoids evolved independently from different lineages in Africa and South America, respectively.
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