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Johnthomas,
Thank you for your comments. I'm glad my review makes you want to read the book. In fact, I have of books on evolution that I have reviewed over the past 10 years. I'm sure you will find many of them.
One of the more detailed books in that set, The Ancestor's Tale, has one of the best answers to your question about monkeys that I've ever found. It is incorrect to say that we are descended from apes. Rather, we and the apes have a common ancestor, and the monkeys have a common ancestor with that one.
Our species is the one of many latest branches on a growing bushy tree, but, as The Ancestor's Tale and my review of it make clear, it is truly awe-inspiring that evolution is capable of producing such a great variety of wondrous creatures.
Happy reading.
Fred Bortz