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True, but while all humans have chimp dna, many humans have 0 percent neanderthal dna - are they more human than me?
by ljf 2y ago
True, but while all humans have chimp dna, many humans have 0 percent neanderthal dna - are they more human than me?
- eru 2y agoNo human had a chimp ancestor. But humans share a fairly recent common ancestor with chimps. Some human had Neanderthal ancestors, some did not, as you rightly suggest. However, all humans and Neanderthals share a common ancestor that's much more recent than our last common ancestor with chimps. Ie we only have 'chimp DNA' in the sense that we share a lot of DNA with them, and that we haven't changed too much since our last common ancestor. Exactly the same is true of us and Neanderthals.