[SalukiLawyer]

Humans are not "higher" or "more evolved" than other living lineages. Since our lineages split, humans and chimpanzees have each evolved traits unique to our own lineages.

Thanks for the link. When I was reading it, I saw this next to the picture that places humans, gorillas, and chimps on the same level of the tree. So I am to understand that whatever made humans so much more (hate to sound specieist) capable is not a result of longer or better evolutionary processes, but just a really lucky deal in the random game of evolutionary poker?

[Quark2005]

So I am to understand that whatever made humans so much more (hate to sound specieist) capable is not a result of longer or better evolutionary processes, but just a really lucky deal in the random game of evolutionary poker?

Depends how you define 'more capable'. If by 'more capable' you mean tree-climbing ability, chimps have us beaten, hands-down. Both intelligence and tree-climbing ability are adaptations for survival; both have worked.