Do you believe that Hashem COULD NOT in fact create an animal that shares DNA that appears to be commonly found in both apes and humans? If a pig valve could replace one in the human heart, why could there not have been a creation that has similar qualities to both species. We do not actually know the English translation of every animal named in the Torah (what IS an hyrax, after all?), and many animals are now extinct (Dodo Bird, Passenger Pigeon, etc.), so maybe this “common ancestor” is likewise extinct. Why does it have to be contradictory to the Torah? I believe Torah and Madah can be compatible. Sometimes Madah gets it wrong, but so what? There is the belief that the world might be Geocentric and not heliocentric, also. Some prominent Gedolim in the Gemarah put forth that argument, something which science has proved to be incorrect, as the earth and (other planets) indisputably revolves around the Sun and not vice versa.
