Is it true that humans are still apes?

A persistent statement made by evolution deniers is the “If humans/apes evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?” thing. read more

Humans always were and always will be apes—along with bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and the other great apes. We all share common ancestors. read more

Yep, humans and apes are related all right -- just not quite in the way you might picture. Howard Kingnorth/Getty Images Since Charles Darwin published the theory of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, myths and misinterpretations have eroded public understanding of his ideas. read more

They insist that both man and the apes came from a hypothetical ape-like ancestor, the evidence for which has not yet been discovered. Secondly, evolution does not propose that all members of a type evolved into another type, but that only a small group of individuals, genetically isolated from the others, evolved, leaving the others to remain the same. read more

This distinction would be less obvious if early, monkey-like members of the ape lineage still existed. But they don’t; they’re extinct. So you should think of apes as monkeys in the same way that birds are dinosaurs, snakes are lizards, and humans are apes. The shape of the tree. read more