Does a chimp's high IQ show the process of evolution?

I think so. Evolution all the way!

I am not sure how a single animals IQ is supposed to show the “process of evolution”. Because evolution is a random process. It does not aim at anything, except survival.

Evolution does this: It produces slight changes in new individuals of all kinds. You call that mutation. Then the individuals that have beneficial changes compared to their parent generation have better chances to reproduce, the creatures that have limiting changes compared to their parent generation have limited chances to reproduce. Thus, the beneficial random changes have better chances to be inherited into subsequent generations. Period.

Though greater intelligence compared to other individuals of the same kind might be a beneficial trait (one that betters the chances of a creature to produce and protect a lot of offspring) in wild life, this need not necessarily be given. I mean, look at cockroaches. They are completely dumb, but they have other traits that ensure their survival and massive reproduction.

Especially not in an individual in captivity. If you put several especially intelligent Chimps together in a research laboratory and they produce smart offspring then that is blood stock breeding, not evolution.

And in some cases, greater intelligence (as it often comes along with greater curiosity) may even limit reproduction chances of an individual.

The Chimp experiment says nothing about “the process of evolution” because the process of evolution can only be seen when observing a wild life population during a vast span of time and noting down the differences between individuals in the original population and individuals in subsequent generations.

But the Chimp experiments DO tell us that we should stop underestimating all the other species. Mankind is just another animal. We may have developed a slightly greater curiosity and frontier spirit than the other folks on the planet. But we are in no way the “summit of creation”. We’re just another kind of beast. And not so different from the other animals after all.