Evolution - We're not evolving a whole lot. If you'd take a baby who was born 50,000 years ago, and you'd raise him with other kids of this age, I'm quite sure they'd end up the same. He could be taught to fly an airplane and all that. We have removed all evolutionary pressure, so we won't evolve into a 'better form'. Never mistake evolution for a march forwards. It's just change. Tigers today aren't 'better' then sabretooths used to be. Just better adjusted, or lucky to survive. Things change, they don't neccesarily improve. Even changing from a single-celled organism to an apex predator is just a change in the end, not neccesarily progress, though typically we would want to believe that.
Are we apes.
As far as we know, evolution has spawned humans as a species. We're not apes, we're family of them though. There have been several types of human; most famously the Neanderthal and Sapien, though there have been others. We believe Sapien is the last remaining kind. Rumours exists that some species have survived in unexplored areas, but we can't be sure. Our gene pool is more limited than of most other creatures on the planet. This is probably because humanity once almost died out. We aren't a very strong species. Most humans died out, our kind survived. Probably due to tool use and luck - and here we are.
Apes are a classification. We make this because we are animals. We classify. We need to put everything in it's own box, for easy identifying. But obviously, the whole system isn't a fact. It's merely a product of our build. A way to cope in a large world. We sort things, though in truth they aren't sorted. We just kind of put species with common ancestors in the same box, whilst actually every single sample of everything has it's own genotype and fenotype, it's own buildup.
However, people tend to put lots of meaning behind questions like that. 'Are we apes?!' basically means 'Should I assort myself with species that share my common ancestor?!' I say do whatever the hell you want. It doesn't really matter, since it's only in your head in the end.