For me this is the most interesting fact of science: We are an ape species. Humans are apes. The Magic Jeebus Man was an ape. Christians worship a dead ape.

No matter how the calculation is done, the big point still holds: humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos are more closely related to one another than either is to gorillas or any other primate. From the perspective of this powerful test of biological kinship, humans are not only related to the great apes – we are one. The DNA evidence leaves us with one of the greatest surprises in biology: the wall between human, on the one hand, and ape or animal, on the other, has been breached. The human evolutionary tree is embedded within the great apes.

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics