[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.

[FrogMom]

I thought we were closer to Bonobo’s than chimps.