Why are there no human apes alive today?

Because we killed them. They occupied land that we wanted, and they were different from us, and we turned out be smarter and better-organized. So we killed them and took their land. But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
--Deuteronomy 20:16If they had been able to produce offspring with us some of their descendants might be in existence today. But if so, then they would be us, as opposed to them, wouldn't they?The reason there are a very small number of somewhat-less-human apes like chimps and gorillas still alive now is because they adapted to live in niche territories that we didn't (until relatively recently) much want.

Nope, not at all. Though a good line of argument in principle I guess, it's doomed to fail when very closely-related mammals like dogs or pigs are used as the goat. But sure, show us whatever, ape / cuttlefish similarities. That ought to do the trick. Something disssstant.Main flaw in Mazzy's argument (beyond sheer chronic inaccuracy) is that its a long-since PRATT. There's no viable "missing link" question anymore, since the genetic evidence started rolling in. The same test that proves someone is that baby-daddy also independently confirms that the nesting predicted by cladistics and found profusely in the fossil record in the geologic table, is in fact evident in data suitable for family court as well.