>>9903893>The genetic distance between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis (<0.08%)Caramelli, D., Lalueza-Fox, C., Vernesi, C., Lari, M., Casoli, A., Mallegni, F., Chiarelli, B., Dupanloup, I., Bertranpetit, J., Barbujani, G., & Bertorelle, G. (May 27, 2003). Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans, PNAS, 100(11):6593-6597.
>is less than the genetic distance between the two chimpanzee species (0.103)Cooper, A., Poinar, H.N., Pääbo, S.J., Radovcic, J., Debenath, A., Caparros, M., Barroso-Ruiz, C., Bertranpetit, J., Nielsen-Marsh, C., Hedges, R.E.M., & Sykes, B., (Aug. 22, 1997). Neandertal genetics. Science, 277:1021–1023.
>The genetic distance between (sub-Saharan) Africans and Eurasians (0.2%)Krings, M., Stone, A., Schmitz, R.W., Krainitzki, K., Stoneking, M., & Paabo, S. (July 11, 1997). Neandertal DNA sequences and the origins of modern humans. Cell, 90:19-30.
>the genetic distance between Homo sapiens and Homo erectus is estimated as 0.170Curnoe, D. & Tobias, P.V. (2006). Description, new reconstruction, comparative anatomy, and classification of the Sterkfontein Stw 53 cranium, with discussions about the taxonomy of other southern African early Homo remains. Journal of Human Evolution, 50:36-77.
>the genetic distance between living Africans and Eurasians is 0.23Cavalli-Sforza, L.L., Menozzi, P. & Piazza, A. (1994) The History and Geography of Human Genes, Princeton University Press. p. 82
