It is a beautiful cranium. However, paleontologists place it within Genus Homo, which includes modern humans and a number of their ancestors, as well as some dead-end branches. As such, it is not technically an ape.
In the following chart, H. ergaster, or H. erectus as some prefer, is on the direct line of human descent. You have to go back to the early Australopithecines before you get something that looks very much like an ape (actually a chimp), and even then many of the parts of the skeleton have diverged from the chimp pattern.
If you want to see more cute crania, I could post the Taung baby or Mrs. Ples. Let me know.
Source: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeDating/HumanEvol_info.html