Better, or more easily adaptive, does not necessarily mean "more complex". Watch your phraseology, hazetwostep. Anyone that doesn't see a link between man and ape, by this point and time, is a buffoon. That's not to say that I don't believe in God. I do. Evolution is God's tool for change. What takes Him/Her/It one split second to evolve, looks like it takes a billion years to us.