If humans share 98% of the same DNA with Chimps, is it fair to say that humans share more DNA with Neanderthal?

cats and dogs are about AS close relatives to primates as are bears, and hyeanas, and hoofed animals.

the closest relatives of primates are hedgehogs and other insectivores.

you know, all that "common DNA" is somewhat more difficult than you imagine it.

having a tail and not having a tail is not THAT difficult. there are CATS without tail (genetically defined)

http://www.google.cz/search?q=Manx+cat&ie=utf-8&oe...

as a rule of thumb, you can tell, the more crossroads over the evolution tree you pass from one species to another, the more different the DNA will be.

Because of that, Neanderthals are closer to us than the chimps. the common ancestor of both humans and chimps should have more in common with humans than chimps do.

However, the genetic diversity within HUMAN population is larger than the differences between chimps AND humans respectively! the apparent paradox arises from comparing various populations within species, while when comparing the two species, you are comparing a "mean/average" DNA.

<<If humans share 98% of the same DNA with Chimps, is it fair to say that humans share more DNA with Neanderthal?>>

That would be so, because Neanderthals branched off from the main Homo genus, probably from Homo Erectus species, I don't remember what the estimate of when that happened would be, but was millions of years after the divergence of paths between hominids and apes. Homo Sapiens would appear to have developed off the Homo Erectus line with perhaps some big changes then gradual improvements - the Cromagnon early Homo Sapiens still have archaic features apparently.

It's not very pc, but I think a lot of changes could effect the way we think, and that would be more significant than body form, so I think the Neanderthals were thick-in-the-head compared with us! Supposedly the geneticists think there was no interbreeding between early modern man and Neanderthals. I think Neanderthals only died out at the end of the last Ice Age, but don't remember.

The common ancestor with chimps was still an ape and so had only a vestigial tail. Neanderthals were hominids, another species of human.

I think we share 80% of a bananas DNA or something like that. It doesn't mean we are related. Just because we have a close DNA match does not mean humans are in any way similar to monkeys. It's our brain that is important. Maybe the reason humans have been created very similar looking to an animal is so we respect them. God wouldn't want us to disrespect animals.

This is Religion & Spirituality. Are we saying the origin theory of evolution is a religion now? We probably should.

You need to produce said neanderthal and test said neanderthal's DNA.

Oh, and I wonder about your numbers there. lol Your father's DNA match to yours is 99.99something.

it's been shown that the neanderthal was not a predecessor to modern man. cro magnon however does show up in our dna.

if humans evolved from monkeys then why are monkeys still here ? and moreover if evolution was a continuous process then why didn't we humans evolve to something else ? . so it is best to go by the fact that humans came to earth as humans though a crude form in the past and monkeys were as they are and will continue to be so .

mans DNA was changed from the original form, with Adam and Eve..... we use to have 12 helix's and now we only have 2