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Monkeys were in that lineage between single celled organisms and you.
Apes. Not monkeys.
Apes evolved from monkeys. Monkeys are in your lineage.
You got it backward—monkeys evolved from apes.
Like this:
Edit: I was wrong. See my comment 2 levels below.
Lol, this is also wrong. Replace ape with primate and you've got something more accurate. If you actually care about maintaining phyletic groups then apes ( and thus humans) are old world monkeys.
I can't image that to be correct honestly. Apes have much further developed brains than monkeys, so I would assume it logical that apes evolved from monkeys and not the other way around.
This graphic seems to support my assumption if I am not mistaken:
That chart just shows that apes and monkeys evolved from a shared ancestor, not that that shared ancestor is a monkey. Granted, it doesn't support my position either. Nevertheless.
May I have a source for that image please? Maybe it can provide more information.
Edit: I did some more research:
The cladogram shown here shows that simians (infraorder Simiiformes) branched off into Catarrhini and New World Monkeys (parvorder platyrrhini). Then, the Catarrhini branched off into apes (superfamily Hominoidia) and Old World Monkeys (superfamily Cercopithecoidea.
In short, all monkeys have a shared ancestry with apes, but are not evolved from apes.
Thank you for clearing that up!
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Monkeys are a group of animals. Our ancestors come from that group. They are classified as monkeys. All of us had monkey ancestors.
I think you're confusing that with the specific species of monkey that are alive today. Those are distant relatives of ours, not ancestors.
We evolved from the group of animals known as monkeys. Animals in that group were our direct ancestors.
The species of monkey that are currently alive today are distant relatives.