Simplify the following text for a Grade 12 native English-speaking person.
Original: Current evidence strongly suggests that termites evolved directly from true cockroaches , and many authors now consider termites to be an epifamily of cockroaches , as Blattaria excluding Isoptera is not a monophyletic group .
Simplified: Current evidence strongly suggests that termites have evolved directly from true cockroaches , and many authors now consider termites to be in the family of cockroaches .