I am still not descended from a monkey.
That was quick. You read faster than I do it seems.
No one says that is so, but you and I are apes and descended from apes :-) (are you Rh+ ?)
Not directly, of course. The apes intervene. In fact, there's no point at all getting excited over the monkeys considering the primitive primates, early mammals, mammal-like reptiles, amphibians, fish, chordates, bilateran metazoans, and pond scum. Compared to most of that, monkeys are pretty respectable.