Okay, we came from monkeys. Cool. But why do we still have monkeys and no middle man?
The simplest answer is: we didn't "come from monkeys." However, somewhere in the distant past, all of the existing primates did presumably have a common ancestor. We don't know exactly what or when that was--and we may never know as there were apparently very few of them, whatever they were, and archeological evidence is very sparse and hard to come by. DNA evidence does suggest that, with respect to modern species, humans are most closely related to a species represented today by Ronald Reagan's co-star Bosco. (Apparently the common name is not deemed acceptable to use on this web site.) That doesn't mean that we are descended from them, only that the two species apparently had a common ancestor in the distant past--most certainly millions of years ago.
