A few things wrong with your assumptions.

One, we ARE apes. Two, we didn't "separate" from the planet "millions of years ago" or something. We've been part of this whole thing since we've been around in some form or another. To claim otherwise is just stupid.

What, we dropped to earth and "separated" ourselves?

You're a relatively hairless ape who needs food, sex and shelter. Too bad your large forebrain can't get around the entre basis for "love", art, technology and survival.

We can't really "work against" what we are, but we can do what we've always done: vie for power. Some rise up, they sit on top of the heap for a while and then they get taken out. That's it. The problem is, we'll do this until we go extinct -unless you see some way out of a population of around 7 billion WITHOUT a collapse.

It's really much more simple than you think if you seek the roots of your art, your music, your technology.