Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations. Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is absent altogether.
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Gee, H. Return to the planet of the apes. Nature 412, 131–132 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35084308
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