"More closely related" is a relative term. It's a bit like saying that, looking east, I'm closer to Berlin than Tehran (I'm in Alabama). Of course, parsing is not a creationist strongpoint, so I don't hold your inability to see the distinction against you.
No, it's more like saying you're more closely related to your first cousin Jack than you are to your first cousin Jill when the relationship between you and either of them is the same. I'm quite sure if you did a DNA study between you and all of your first cousins, one of them would come up "closer" Would you then claim that your aunt and uncle are really your parents? Well that's what the liberals are doing with this chimpanzee / bonobos nonsense