A recent study concluded. Chimps are more evolved than humans.
Evolution happens in two main ways, positive adaptation through natural selection and random mutation. Both mechanisms are in play for all creatures. While the first is undoubtably both necessary and positive, the second is more questionable. Random mutation in many ways inhibits the natural selection process. As natural selection attempts to make a creatures better suited to its environment random mutation can reverse this.
In humans random mutaion is particularly strong and the reason why the population has remianed so homogenous compared to other species. Despite thousands of years of selective breeding in many societies, it's proven impossible with humans to breed thoroughbred or breeds in the way we do with dogs or race horses.
In a comparison between Chimps and Humans, recents evolution has shown that Chimps evolution has been controlled much more by natural selection and less by random mutation than humans. Meaning Chimps are much more suited to their natural environment than humans to theirs. Thus Chimpanzees are much more evolved than humans.
Human evolution as we know took a strange turn, when we evolved large brains. But this has somehow arrogantly made us believe we are at the peak of the evolutionary tree, when really brain development is only one part of evolution.
Within the concept of evolution can lie a notion of telos. However this seems to contradict it. Can evolution be evolution without telos?