Evolutionary processes can be of two types with respect to the pattern that can be seen.
In anagenetic (meaning "that generate upward movement") events, an entire population evolves in one direction and becomes so different that at some point the people who study it give it a different name.
This happens in paleontological research and the decision to separate one from the other is ultimately arbitrary.
Cladogenetic (meaning "that generates branches") events entail a population that splits into different sub-groups; each of these then evolves independently from the others.
We share A COMMON ANCESTOR with living apes, but we have not evolved from them directly.
Our direct ancestors are fossil hominid species.
All the species that are living today have their separate evolution and history; also they all (including humans) share common ancestors from which they (we) have inherited our common traits.
And apes have their own ancestors that are closer to them than to Homo sapiens.