Chimps

On the topic of evolution, there are still many unanswered questions that might or might not ever be answered. One of these questions is why are there still chimps since humans came from chimps. Although, this question is a confusing one based on that chimps didn't actually derive from humans but in actuality, they had a common ancestry among the evolutionary tree. Furthermore, this means that we shared basically an "aunt" or "uncle" (which has been described as "a terrestrial quadrupedal knuckle-walking species, more similar to extant chimpanzees" (Shook, pg. 10) or a hominin that used "an arboreal form of bipedal locomotion (Shook, pg. 8)) and from there we evolved in our own ways. However, one question people still asked is why didn't chimps evolve in the ways that humans did. There isn't a straight answer or a confirmed answer out there about this. What we can infer is that in the evolutionary chain, the current chimp evolved in the "fittest" way in their environment which caused a stagnant (evolution is never stagnant, we are still adapting for better or worst today) in their species, which could also be said about us. This doesn't mean that we or chimps are better than the other but adapted different qualities based on the environment we were subjected to. Chimps have advance qualities (including cognitive mapping, good memories, planning, tool-use and making, social intelligence and learning, and etc.) that have in common to humans.