Not every evolutionist is an amateur, although so many are. This article was written by a young girl who was obviously taught to believe what her evolutionist forebears in academia taught, but they were wrong. She is also wrong and fails to see the full impact of the science that disproves long-loved evolution theory just as modern research forced the American Museum of Natural History to scrap its entire horse evolution display it had showcased for several decades.
If our closest relatives are chimps, why is some human DNA more like gorilla DNA? - The Tech Interactive 11-18-19
If our closest relatives are chimps, why is some human DNA more like gorilla DNA?
November 18, 2019
A high school student from Egypt asks:
"Why do some human genes resemble gorilla or orangutan genes more than chimp genes although we are more closely related to chimps?"
What’s remarkable is humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas are highly similar. Humans and chimpanzees have 98.6% of their DNA in common. Humans and gorillas are just slightly less: 98.3%.
This less than 2% genetic difference is pretty remarkable. The variation between all modern humans is only three times larger, roughly 0.6%.
Chimpanzees are our closest evolutionary relatives. But about 15% of the human genome looks more like the gorilla’s genome than the chimpanzee’s genome!
There are a few ways this can happen. Perhaps the chimpanzees gained a new mutation, after their ancestors split off from ours. But in some spots, humans and gorillas inherited the same version of a gene...while chimpanzees inherited something different. To understand how this could happen, let’s dive into the phenomenon that population geneticists call incomplete lineage sorting.
The question that our young scholar is attempting to answer is a good one, and she waffles in attempting to guess why the fact exists. If humans descended from chimps and gorillas, then there should be no genes shared between chimps and gorillas that are not shared with humans. She suggests the contradiction may be explained by claiming chimps gained the similar gene after they diverged from gorillas. That is silly. She is grasping at straws.