text: if man came from ape, where did the woman come from?   your logic is flawed: humans did not evolve from apes, but rather ape-like creatures.  no organisms can have evolved from extant organisms.  that is, if it is around today, nothing else around today evolved from it.  both humans and other apes diverged from an ape-like common ancestor and both extant apes and humans are equally evolved.    as far as your question, the "man" refered to in such statement is defined as all humans.  both male and female humans evolved slowly at the same time through selective pressures on both genders.