[allmendream]

Yes, a “considerable fraction of single genes” are more similar between humans and gorillas than between humans and chimps. Not the majority.

This is predictable based upon the small amount of total difference in genetic DNA. Humans and chimps are about 1-2% different, and humans and gorillas are about 2-3% different, there is some overlap there making a “considerable fraction of single genes” more similar between humans and gorillas than humans and chimps; but obviously not the majority. The data clearly doesn’t show that chimps and gorillas are closer than chimps and humans, the data clearly shows a divergence time between chimps and humans as being less than the divergence time between gorillas and chimps.

[GodGunsGuts]

Once again, you are trapped by your reductionist understanding of the role of DNA. Your sloven commitment to reductionist materialism has blinded you from the reality that DNA is but one component that determines our body plan and functional needs. And for some reason, you don't seem to realize that there is as of yet no whole genome sequence of the ape genome to compare with the whole genome sequences of humans and chimps. And finally, you also managed to miss the passage where the authors admit that the fact that humans and apes are more similar to each other than to chimps with respect to a considerable fraction of single genes creates a “conflict between species and gene genealogy” that cannot be explained by “instant speciation and a large ancestral effective population size.” This is what forces them (from a Darwiniac point of view) to conclude that State CG (where chimps and humans both diverge from the ape, but not from each other) is a distinct possibility.