I understand what you mean here, and tend to agree with you, however, so many people are confused over the origins of monkeys and men...
you can't draw a straight line from monkeys to men, but we do share common ancestor species. it's like things branched out WAY back when, and monkeys aren't our ancestors, but rather REALLY distant cousins.

think of it like this:
today we have many many species of birds. Now only same species of birds can reproduce with eachother. Likewise, I can't go screw a monkey and have a monkey/human baby (or hell, maybe I could, who knows? who has REALLY tested that?- don't answer that. i don't think I want to know!).

but all birds share a common ancestor species, right? or a small few original avian species evolved into the THOUSANDS of bird species we have today. same with monkeys and men. we share a common ancestor (theoretically).
when you hear people talk about the "missing link" they're referring to that ancestor from which monkeys and humans both came. Some people believe lucy (an ancient hominid skeleton found) to be a link, and I think there may be others, but there just isn't enough evidence to say for sure.

I really don't think any scientist nowadays still think that man evolved from MONKEYS, but rather, the apes and humans share a common "linking" ancestor (which I suppose you could call a monkey, but at such a primitive stage, you'd be better off just to call it a homo-whatever)

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