[allmendream]

Neanderthal DNA was much more similar to human DNA than to chimpanzee DNA not “halfway between”.

Human genes and Neanderthal genes are 99.5% identical.

Human genes and chimpanzee genes are 98% identical.

It is estimated that only 1-4% of the DNA of anyone with non-African ancestry is of Neanderthal origins. So of 100 ancestors at the time of gene mixing - some 99 to 96 of them would be human and only 1 to 4 of them Neanderthal.

Thus your idea that the difference between non-Africans (not just “whites” but all Asians, Islanders, Persians, Arabs, Europeans, etc) and African people would be much larger is pure bunk.

First there IS more difference in DNA between Africans and non-Africans than between any other group and the rest of humanity.

Secondly your assertion that Neanderthal DNA was halfway between ours and chimps is absolutely wrong.

Thirdly, mixing in 1 to 4% of something 99.5% identical is not going to add up to a “huge” genetic difference.

[wendy1946]

Neanderthal DNA was much more similar to human DNA than to chimpanzee DNA not “halfway between”.

A lie does not become truth via repetition.

".....He said his team ran four separate tests for authenticity - checking whether other amino acids had survived, making sure the DNA sequences they found did not exist in modern humans, making sure the DNA could be replicated in their own lab and then getting other labs to duplicate their results. Comparisons with the DNA of modern humans and of apes showed the Neanderthal was

about halfway between a modern human and a chimpanzee."