Its said that we human beings are evolved from monkeys and apes so it means that our - Biology - Evolution

Question

Its said that we human beings are evolved from monkeys and
apes so it means that our ancestors were monkeys and apes so i
havent understood that if they wre our ancestors why do they still
exist in earth??m just confused because of this when we evolved
from them to human beings then why not they?i mean according to
evolution even they should have evolved please help me out with
this

Shailee · Accepted Answer

It is a misleading statement that man has evolved from apes The
fact is that humans and monkeys share a common ancestor
Dryopithecus Ramapithecus then evolved from dryopithecus Around
10mya gibbons evolved and their evolutionary line seprated It was
around 8mya that evolutionary line of orangutans seprated, and
around 5mya the common ancestor of chimpanzee and gorilla seprated
form the main evolutionary line Australopithecus afarensis evolved
from the main evolutiionary line and is considered to be the
ancestor of humans (try to visualise it as branches emerging from
trees and giving rise to two different fruits)
In simple words it is as if humans and apes had a common grandpa
and so we haven't evolved from them but are like first cousins to
them
Hope that helps