Hi there,
So yes, a simple element of logic here: if apes connected to humans (genealogically), could humans not "reconnect" to other humans?
I have said before that "the Evolution of a specific survival, is different from the optimum survival for that Evolution" this is merely an extension of that thought - that humans could stop and reconnect with themselves, in order to find the optimum for their current "Evolution". Better yet could we protract the optimum for our species or even over-reach with the optimum? These things are not prohibited, that we develop as advances the species we have as much as is possible. As Jesus promised "with men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible" (gospels, from memory).
In this we would have the working out of our salvation, with Evolution, because we grasp that it is our current "Evolution" that is in our grasp, to make strong or direct, as we need to. The more we are able to reconnect in strength, that is with fewer and fewer mutations (not more, let the reader note) the more we would develop a "pure" evolution, one that is responsive and more readily reacting to selection pressures placed on it. This is a marvel, that God not limit His Creation to a particular past and condemn it with slavery to a concept that bears no predictable fruit - far from, every fruit is predictable in the Lord!
In time we will come to laugh about this, that we thought somehow our past would change the choice we had, in the Lord, about our life and life and meaning in spirit. The word of Evolution will spread, with joy and taking up of courage to fulfil it. This is the Old Evolution breaking down, that new Evolution, of the same species, be able to develop and bear fruit - fruit that is more contextualized with the current state of struggle, in the flesh. Yes! The flesh is able to rest, knowing that God has a part in the direction that our New Evolution is taking. The power of God, is to know it and trust it, in the One whom He has sent.
You may think "well, how can this be: that Evolution become "New"?" But do not be too smart! Jesus said we must be "born again" in order to enter Heaven; how much more must we break down the Old Evolution, in order for New Evolution (of the existing species) to emerge? Does not every species, have capacity to break down and regrow, and regrow using the same focus that served our ancestors, with the greatest longevity in mind? Indeed can we not now repent, when our focus draws away from our neighbor enjoying the same? Or (repent) that the Devil was despised for suggesting that some sort of change was needed (how ever in kind)?
This is special! New Evolution is real! I pray that we master it, just as our Lord mastered us and made us what we were to Him - able to believe whatever it takes to serve Him!
God bless.