i know it's a joke. but every animal alive is just as evolved as us. that includes apes (which we also are), zebras, fish and earthworms.

I remember reading somewhere that the indigenous people of a SE Asian country believed that orangutans could speak, but chose not to because they would be forced to work if humans found out

Apes are constantly changing, including humans. How fit the survivors are now that Humanity has fucked everything up is questionable.

The human/gorilla common ancestor walked upright on two feet. Humans kept it, gorillas evolved towards foot/knuckle walking.

WE are apes too, so they did evolve and have to go to work.

not how evolution works.

[Morbo voice] Evolution does not work that way!

They didn't. They keep evolving different way than human. Ape evolution is slow. We can't see it due to our preception of time. They just seem to exist as is and the gene pool is quite narrow.

they did not "stop evolving", thats not how it works

Without referencing H. G. Wells' The Time Machine or species of the Homo genus aside from Sapiens, describe what you think it would look like after humans split into two new clades.

They didn't stop evolving. Neither did humans.

I would say, from all Apes on earth, we are the only ones who are working 8 hours for living.

Return to monkey!

They didn't stop evolving. They just evolved better.

Ape together make union!

Stone age bonobo

The real question is what was the point in evolving if they were just going to evolve into morons like whoever made this.