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Though we humans have 2 - 3% the genes of Neanderthals, we have 50% of the DNA of a banana.

Hence we are more like bananas than Neanderthals, and bananas are our closer relative.

(sources: Bananas, Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College; Neanderthals. David Reich, a geneticist at the Harvard Medical School)