Human apes and chimpanzee apes share an ancestor. This is the strongest fact of science. Most genes in humans and chimps are nearly identical.

American Museum of Natural History - DNA: Comparing Humans and Chimps

There are thousands of evidences for our close evolutionary relationship with the other Great Ape species. It's all very interesting. America's science deniers don't know what they're missing. Unfortunately for them they go out of their way to know nothing.