Are gorillas and chimpanzees really closest to Africans?

[Bobby Martnen]

Those calculators should be taken with a grain of salt when analyzing non-humans, because they are simply grasping to categorize non-human DNA, it does not mean they are a close match at all with whatever comes up.

That's what I meant by

But I think running apes through human genetic tests is a dubious premise.

[Kriptc06]

Sounds exaggerated and probably fake. Also non africans have neanderthal and denisovan admixture which i speculate would pull them farther away from chimps since homosapian would be closer to a chimp than neanderthal and denisovan

africans also have archaic hominid admix, thus also not 100% sapiens.

[Abdelnour]

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...thal-ADMIXTURE

[Sikeliot]

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...thal-ADMIXTURE

Basically any older populations of humans will be closer to Pygmies and Khoisans because these are the oldest branches of the human tree. But as I said only people with racist intentions would interpret that in nefarious ways.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

africans also have archaic hominid admix, thus also not 100% sapiens.

Archaic is closer to homosapian than neanderthal and denisovan.
Neanderthals could not even make bows and arrows.

[Kriptc06]

Archaic is closer to homosapian than neanderthal and denisovan.
Neanderthals could not even make bows and arrows.

good point, but still admixed.

[Myanthropologies]

Sounds exaggerated and probably fake. Also non africans have neanderthal and denisovan admixture which i speculate would pull them farther away from chimps since homosapian would be closer to a chimp than neanderthal and denisovan

I don't think that would make Europeans any further. All hominids including neanderthals and homo sapiens split from non-human primates at the same time. They all last shared an ancestor with non-human primates at the same time. Thus, Neanderthals and Homo-Sapien are both equally as close to non-human primates. Whoever started the thread is just an idiot who can only interpret amateur genetics such as GEDmatch and other commercial websites.

He took data from David Reich's study and uploaded it to GEDmatch. I think that if Dr. Reich's data came to such conclusions, Reich would have mentioned it in a study. After all, David Reich is the same person who wrote on the New York Times claiming that we should expect traits like behavior and cognition to be genetically different across different populations (not that I agree with that, though). He is not someone that would censor such a finding.