Well obviously chromosome 1 and 2 don’t explain why chimpanzees are closer to their ape cousins than to humans in body plan and functional needs. Therefore, the explanation must lie elsewhere. I predict that chimps will be found to be closer to their ape cousins in the 97% of the genome that the Evos predicted would be “junk.” Namely, the untranslated regions—the 97% of the genome where we now know five, seven or more transcripts can orgininate from a single segment of code. This leaves plenty of room to explain why the chimpanzee is more like an ape than a human.
Chromosome 1 and 2 cover a large percentage of the entire genome and include both translated (3%) and untranslated regions (97%).
There is no “room” for the similarities between chimps and GORILLAS (gorillas and apes are synonyms only to a simpleton) to be “hidden”. The ENTIRETY of chromosome one and two sequences were compared and as anyone with eyes to see and a brain to understand can comprehend, HUMANS AND CHIMPS ARE MORE SIMILAR IN DNA than either is to a GORILLA.