I hate to have to say this but... (Score 1)

We did not evolve from monkeys any more than we evolved from birds. In fact, we didn't evolve from ANY of the species that are currently living on the earth today. That is an absurd idea and I won't even go into why. Rather, the skinny of the matter is that Homo Sapiens and Chimpanzees evolved from the same distant, and long dead relative. Presumably they looked like Chimpanzees but we can't really know cause we haven't found the fossils yet, presumably because they're probably burried underneath some part of the Sahara Desert now, or deep in the rain forests somewhere where we aren't digging.