Exactly. And if it’s the survival of the fittest, then how come the apes didn’t die out after man came on the scene? After all, that is what supposedly happened to all the missing links between apes and men.
Most all apes did die out.
I once heard that if you took every non-human great ape in the world, they would not fill a single football-sized stadium, while humans would fill 60,000 stadiums, filling another 1,000 every year.
The fact is, great-apes which survive today do so only in areas which were never densely inhabited by humans.