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Quick question regarding Neanderthals and genetic relation

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05-21-2010 2:45 AM

I was reading the Neanderthal wiki out of curiosity of this interesting species and came across this.
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Preliminary DNA sequencing from a 38,000-year-old bone fragment of a femur found at Vindija Cave, Croatia, in 1980 showed that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens share about 99.5% of their DNA
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Now I am not quite sure but aren't there humans within our own populations that are more diverse DNA wise with other humans than we are to the Neanderthals? If so, how can we so different within our own populations to that of a different species? Sorry, genetics is not my stronghold. So I was curious to better understand this. I may be and probably am completely off.
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