Three major differences between humans and chimpanzees are that humans are bipedal, have a larger brain, and have a larger body. Which of these characteristics evolved first?

a. bipedality and larger brain evolved together first
b. bipedality
c. larger brain
d. larger body
e. larger brain and larger body evolved together first


Ans: b. bipedality

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