This is simply not how evolution works at all.

We know that all life on earth arose from single original species. By the model you are using here, there would today be only one species still.

One of the possibility could be that humans and apes may have lived closely before the rise of civilzation. May be that could be the reason behind the findings of the fossils found by the scientists during excavation and their theories.

Another thing to mention here is that, humans are the only living beings on this earth who balance there body on there heels, rest all other animals including apes they balance there body with their toes and not the heels. I believe this is the bigest distinction to prove this fact.

One of my geology professors at the University of Texas argued that geology undergraduate education consisted of the faculty lying to students through the freshman year; then spending the remaining three years trying to convince the students they had bee lied to. Because I have 32 years experience teaching introductory and general education courses, I see his point. The first presentation of an idea has to be simplified to the point that it can be grasped by a novice. It is a real challenge to simplify a concept while still retaining a high degree of verisimillitude. Perhaps this is really what we are talking about here.