Gorillas in the Mist

No, this is not a post about Sigourney Weaver.

During a pseudo-intellectual conversation with a good friend the following question was posed: "If homo-sapiens evolved from apes, why are there still apes around?"

At first I said that's interesting because I always thought when an animal/mammal evolves it completely changes. For example you don't see short neck giraffes roaming the countryside or wherever they roam about. Point is, you just don't see it.

But then I thought about it some more. A few days went by and it dawned on me... coyotes and wolves are still around despite having evolved into domestic dogs.

So that answers that question. Now, what the hell does pseudo-intellectual mean?