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I was reading an article about Neanderthal taking a 180. Some people see the DNA of Neanderthal as being distinct and different from humans. The Orlando paper confirms the DNA of an 100,000 specimen to be similar to the 12 other studies. I think that the Neandetrtal DNA shows the Neanderthal was not related to humans. Has anyone said what percentage of DNA is similar? They say that a chimp has over 90% the DNA of humans but I see that as being not related. A carrot has 70-80% of the DNA of a human so does that make us descendants of a carrot? These prehuman monkeys had no great cities and cured no deceases and did not make it to the moon so I do not see them as human.

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A carrot has 70-80% of the DNA of a human

No, it doesn't. No plant DNA is anywhere near this similar to human DNA (or that of any animal). NOTE: It's possible that some particular gene might be this similar, but overall sequence similarity? No way.