What's the problem? If the ape is suited for his environment, and if his environment doesn't change, the ape won't change either. Ditto for sharks. Ditto for allegators. There's no law that says every species must change into something else.
Well maybe I am making an assumption but I figured that the ape experienced the same environment changes as man did and I would have expected at least some changes over the same time period. I also thought that man and ape had about the same abilities at one time. When man changed so many times while the ape never changed I find that confusing.
Come now. That is a very simple cop-out. If one species evolves, others must as well. Life is life. It doesn't pick and choose.