@FlutherBug “So we are just a more “advanced” ape pretty much….? Do you think humans will keep evolving higher up…?”
No species is more or less “advanced” than any other. We are all just a combination of adaptation and happenstance. We are well suited for the type of life that we lead. A slug is well suited to the type of life it leads. No species is moving “up” any sort of ladder to a pinnacle. That’s not how evolution works. We adapt to the environment we are in. If you want to know more about how natural selection works, maybe ask a separate question about it? These are all pretty big topics.
“I wonder why are there still apes though?”
It sounds like you are under the impression that when a new species diverges from another, the other disappears, “poof”. Again, this is not how evolution works. See @Darth_Algar‘s response above for the example of wolves and dogs, showing why. Another good way to illustrate this is with ring species. Every organism is the same species as its parents, after all. It’s only after many generations of change that there is enough difference for us to decide that there is a new species. Organisms don’t flip a switch and change into something totally different. And the word “species” is just a term we have invented in order to classify organisms into groups that share some traits. This is not totally arbitrary (there are rules to these definitions) but they’re often not perfectly defined, either. Some people don’t think wolves and dogs are different species, for example.
You might find this essay by Richard Dawkins interesting. It is about the kinds of questions you are asking (including intermediate species, which were mentioned above as “missing links”), and you should be able to follow it without ever having learned about evolution, which it appears you haven’t.
Would you be willing to share how old you are, and what your education has been? I’m kind of surprised to see so many misconceptions all in one place.
And now I’m getting out of here before @RealEyesRealizeRealLies posts something that makes me want to throw my computer against a wall.