[muawiyah]

Alas, "they" don't describe Neanderthal DNA as halfway between us and the chimps.

Neither Neanderthal or our modern human DNA is anywhere near that of chimps. In fact, it's beginning to look like the critters that broke off from Ardi, who was barely an ape, were far from being chimps even though the chimps descended from them later on.

[wendy1946]

Alas, "they" don't describe Neanderthal DNA as halfway between us and the chimps.

Yeah they do:

The Neanderthal sequences were substantially different from modern human mtDNA. Researchers compared the Neanderthal to modern human and chimpanzee sequences. Most human sequences differ from each other by on average 8.0 substitutions, while the human and chimpanzee sequences differ by about 55.0 substitutions. The Neanderthal and modern human sequences differed by approximately 27.2 substitutions. A second mtDNA sequence, announced in 2000, was derived from a 29,000 year old Neanderthal found in Mezmaiskaya Cave, in the Caucasus, Russia. Although the Mezmaiskaya Cave sequence was slightly different than the Feldhofer Neanderthal, the two Neanderthal mtDNA sequences were distinct from those of modern humans. These results confirmed the earlier study that showed that Neanderthals were unlikely to have contributed to the modern human genome.

Yuppy "scientists" and evolosers KNOW they have a problem with this stuff i.e. that all other hominids were further removed from US THAN the neanderthal and that if we couldn't be descended from the Neanderthal, we could not be descended from any of them; that's the rational for the revisionism which you're seeing in these current articles.

[wendy1946]

Notice that it's not just the Neanderthal's faces which differ from ours:

The rounded torso is basically that of an ape; our torsos are elongated.