DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[Anomalocaris]

Hey look at that, you got something right by accident.  They weren't monkeys.  They were apes, just like you are.  

Within the Hominoidea (apes) superfamily, the Hominidae family diverged from the Hylobatidae (gibbon) family some 15–20 million years ago; African great apes (subfamily Homininae) diverged from orangutans (Ponginae) about 14 million years ago; the Hominini tribe (humans, Australopithecines and other extinct biped genera, and chimpanzee) parted from the Gorillini tribe (gorillas) between 9 million years ago and 8 million years ago; and, in turn, the subtribes Hominina (humans and biped ancestors) and Panina (chimps) separated about 7.5 million years ago to 5.6 million years ago.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_primates

Actually, the common ancester of modern day apes and monkeys would itself have qualified as a monkey. So humans descended from monkeys, with apes being a way point.

But the ancestry of CDF likely bypassed the ape stage and any benefit that conferred on the rest of humanity.