In the last 20 years DNA sequencing has sorted all this out. We are actually more closely related to [bleep] than [bleep] are to gorillas. Monkeys are more distant than any of the above. We used to think that the extinct Neanderthals were a wholly separate species but now it turns out that most Europeans have Neanderthal ancestors. The human/[bleep] split was about 7 million years ago.
