The best-accepted hypothesis for the dispersal of African monkeys to the New World is:
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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Q3: Monkeys underwent massive _ in the Pliocene
Q3: Basal anthropoids are
A) Paleocene primates that may
Q5: The evolution of apes began in Africa
Q5: The visual predation hypothesis proposes that:
A)better vision
Q6: Chororapithecus is considered the:
A)oldest fossil in Africa.
B)ancestor
Q7: Which genus is considered the ancestor to
Q7: Gigantopithecus:
A) stood four feet tall and weighed
Q12: Comparisons of tooth wear in living apes
Q13: Two genera of propliopithecids include
A) Aegyptopithecus and
Q19: Paleocene organisms that may have been the
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