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State whether the following statement is true or false: Human beings have evolved from chimpanzees.

The given statement is False. Human beings are more closely related to modern apes but did not evolve from them too. Human beings just share a common ancestor with modern African apes like gorillas and chimps but did not evolve from them.


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