Define "ape". And "human", for that matter.
One has a eternal spirit the other doesn't.
I'm satisfied with dictionary definitions if it's all right with you. So far as I know there are separate entries for both "ape" and "human", and there always have been. Throughout observed and recorded history the traits of each have been easily distinguished, and the similarities also apparent. Each has remained its own kind.
Based on such simple observations I can heartily predict that apes will never develop the capacity to build or fly an airplane, let alone fabricate and put into writing a conditional sentence. Furthermore I can say so with much more certainty and credibility than I could ever say "I have an ancestral connection to apes" based on millions of years of unobserved, unrecorded evidence.
Meanwhile, if you have definitions for "ape" and human" that are more worthy of common acceptance than those offered in the average English dictionary, then please feel free to knock yourself out. But don't expect the rest of the world to follow your lead.