The best-accepted hypothesis for the dispersal of African monkeys to the New World is that:
A) platyrrhines evolved from anthropoids in Africa that migrated to South America in the Oligocene.
B) platyrrhines evolved from anthropoids in Africa that migrated across the Atlantic to South America.
C) platyrrhines evolved from anthropoids in Africa that migrated south on land to Antarctica, then to Patagonia.
D) Old and New World anthropoids evolved independently from different lineages in Africa and South America, respectively.
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A)anthropoids.
B)primates.
C)mammals.
D)catarrhini.
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