Except that we’re not just apes. Trying to reduce humanity to a species it separated from millions of years ago is a convenient (and wrong) argument against taking responsibility for the animal we have become. The idea that we only eat, shit and fuck, is so clearly and superficially wrong I’m not even sure what point you’re trying to make.

The key question here is can humans work against the negative elements of (the non-human intelligence of) evolution and shape their future. If we’re only apes then it’s unlikely, but then we have to figure out how to explain away all the times throughout history where we did exactly that and how were at a point where we can ‘choose’ whether or not to annihilate ourselves and the planet.