I was made in the image of God. I believe that precludes a close relation to a chimp as God isn't remotely like a chimp.
Got a photo?
"I was made in the image of God."
So, what does God look like? Like a Chinese person or a British? Perhaps Arabic, or simply a South American Indian?
Personally, I think ancient people wanted closeness to their gods. Ancient Hebrews, similary, thought God looked like them, hence the story of the man created in God's image, from soil. Christians adopted that story and Muslims did, too. But, Muslims modified to say that God did not have an image and any attempt at saying what God looks like was blasphemy. Today's Muslims believe that man was created from mud, but not in Allah's image(who does not have an image).
I don't think they teach men created from mud in Saudi Arabian universities. In some cases, they do not literally interpret their holy scriptures.
And you know this because........