[wendy1946]

...Comparisons with the DNA of modern humans and of apes showed the Neanderthal was about halfway between a modern human and a chimpanzee....

...The publication by Noonan et al. revealed Neanderthal DNA sequences matching chimpanzee DNA, but not modern human DNA, at multiple locations...

...The comparison to chimpanzees with modern humans is 55.0 ±3.0, compared to the average between humans and Neanderthals of 25.6 ±2.2. ...

[SunkenCiv]

Express India isn’t a scientific source.

The Noonan paper doesn’t say that Neandertals are halfway between modern humans and chimps.

The third source doesn’t say that Neandertals are halfway between modern humans and chimps.