Did humans evolve from monkeys? Short Answer

This question frames the issue in a slightly misleading way. Firstly, humans are primates, a large order of many hundreds of species but within the primate order, humans are apes (along with Chimps, bonobos, Orang-Utans and Gorillas) which is a distinct group to monkeys. Hence humans and chimpanzees, apes and monkeys evolved from a previous common ancestor, in line with an evolutionary tree (or a phylogeny).