Submitted by bookposting5 t3_109v749 in askscience
coolredjoe t1_j417q2j wrote
It is probably comparing 2 different things, there maybe 3 million single basepair differences between you and me.
And 30.000 gene differences between us and neanderthalers, but a gene that is different, can be a single basepair that is different, or a hundrend different basepairs.
I bet if you look at single base pair differences between us and neanderthalers it will greatly outnumber the differences between you and me.
Take this next part with a grain of salt. But i do remember the genetic similarity between you and me is 99.99%, and with us and neanderthalers our dna is 99.8% similar.
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