'Humans and monkeys are both*primates. But humans are*not*descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We*do*share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. It lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. But humans and chimpanzees evolved differently from that same ancestor. All apes and monkeys share a more distant relative, which lived about 25 million years ago'
http://humanorigins.si.edu/education...sked-questions