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🥰chilidxi💖💕, let's knock this out. Here are the answers based on the phylogenetic tree: 2.5.1) The species most closely related to chimpanzees is the Bonobo. They share a common ancestor that diverged 2.5 mya. 2.5.2) The common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans arose 7 mya. This is the point where the gorilla lineage branched off from the common lineage leading to chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans. 2.5.3) The species most distantly related to humans is the Orangutan. Its lineage diverged earliest from the common ancestor of all the hominids shown in the tree (15 mya). 2.5.4) The statement "Humans evolved from chimpanzees" is NOT true because the phylogenetic tree shows that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor from which they both diverged. Neither species evolved directly from the other; instead, they both evolved along separate evolutionary paths from a shared ancestral species approximately 5 mya. What's next?