Our grandmother found out you're taking a course on human evolution and asks, 'did we evolve from chimpanzees? how do you answer her?
a. no; chimpanzees are more closely related to orangutans than to humans.
b. it's complicated; we evolved from living apes but not specifically chimpanzees
c. no; while we are most closely related to chimpanzees, humans and chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor and chimpanzees have also evolving (just as the human lineage has) since that split. grandma, one living species did not evolve from another!
d. scientists aren't sure; there is no evidence for similarities between humans and apes.
e. yes; chimpanzees are living relics of our evolutionary history, and similarly, chimpanzees evolved from monkeys