[varmintman]

Neanderthal DNA was roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. Moreover, as Vendramini points out, their skulls are completely good matches for ape profiles and very bad matches for ours:

Image courtesy of www.themandus.org

Neanderthals and all other hominids were glorified apes.

[Scythian]

There is no such thing as evolution, there’s just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live ...

[count-your-change]

And some other study will claim chip DNA is actually closer to human DNA than that of Neanderthals. Lots of theories, all of them new and irrefutable until they become old and refuted.

[allmendream]

Neanderthal DNA is much more similar to modern humans than to a chimpanzee. Indeed, all non-African humans have 1-4% Neanderthal ancestry.

Humans are, zoologically speaking, apes. The two apes closest in DNA are humans and chimpanzees. The ‘odd man out’ of the ape group is actually the orangutan - not us. Orangutans are more genetically distinct from the other apes than we are.

[BroJoeK]

varmintman comparing Neanderthal skull to homo sapiens:
"Neanderthal DNA was roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee.
Moreover, as Vendramini points out, their skulls are completely good matches for ape profiles and very bad matches for ours:"

What a bunch of nonsense.
Here are the real skulls.
Note that chimpanzees are item A, while very small progressions -- micro evolution -- take us to Neanderthals, from oldest to youngest, items J, K and L, before homo sapien sapiens, items M and N.

Figure 1.4.4. Fossil hominid skulls. Some of the figures have been modified for ease of comparison (only left-right mirroring or removal of a jawbone). (Images © 2000 Smithsonian Institution.)

• (A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern
• (B) Australopithecus africanus, STS 5, 2.6 My
• (C) Australopithecus africanus, STS 71, 2.5 My
• (D) Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, 1.9 My
• (E) Homo habilis, OH24, 1.8 My
• (F) Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, 1.8 My
• (G) Homo erectus, Dmanisi cranium D2700, 1.75 My
• (H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), KNM-ER 3733, 1.75 My
• (I) Homo heidelbergensis, "Rhodesia man," 300,000 - 125,000 y
• (J) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Ferrassie 1, 70,000 y
• (K) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Chappelle-aux-Saints, 60,000 y
• (L) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Le Moustier, 45,000 y
• (M) Homo sapiens sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, 30,000 y
• (N) Homo sapiens sapiens, modern