Apes evolved from human-like creatures not vice versa

[Maeven]

Watch the video and check out the slideshow too. 

After 15 years of rumors, researchers made public fossils from a 4.4 million-year-old human forebear they say reveals that our ancestors were more modern than scholars had assumed, widening the evolutionary gulf separating humankind from apes and chimpanzees.

The highlight of the extensive fossil trove was a female skeleton a million years older than the iconic bones of Lucy, the primitive female figure that has long symbolized humankind's beginnings.

[Vekseid]

That statement is a bit misleading, it refers to the thought that great apes may have all had more humanlike hands in the past and that knuckle-walking may have been something that co-evolved.

[September]

Strictly speaking, humans are a type of ape.  But very interesting anyway.

[NSEMinion]

If you're interested in this topic, you might consider reading this article.
Not as eye catching, but a bit more informative.

[Maeven]

If you're interested in this topic, you might consider reading this article.
Not as eye catching, but a bit more informative.

Thanks!

That statement is a bit misleading, it refers to the thought that great apes may have all had more humanlike hands in the past and that knuckle-walking may have been something that co-evolved.

Well, I didn't mean for it to be misleading, what I meant to convey, and what I got from the article is that this newly discovered last common ancestor of modern day humans and chimps had characteristics that were more human-like rather than ape-like.