Starting with the work of Thomas Huxley, Charles Darwin based his theory of human origins on which set of observations?
A) There was an excellent fossil record of human evolution from which Huxley and Darwin concluded that humans had a close evolutionary relationship with the African apes.
B) Humans are bipedal while other apes are not, humans have larger canines than other apes, humans are tool users, and humans have larger brains.
C) Humans are bipedal while other apes are not; humans have smaller canines than chimps, gorillas, or orangs; humans are tool users; and humans have larger brains.
D) Since the fossil record known at the time linked humans and orangs, both Huxley and Darwin assumed humans evolved in Asia.
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