Not true at all. No Human group is closer to Chimps than the other. Anyone who claims as much is looking at data they don't understand how to read. For example, they'll probably show you something like this:
Then claim "Blacks" are closer to Chimps cos they look higher up the tree but in reality all humans are at an equal distance from that node we all share away from Chimps. And anyone who thinks Yorubas look like Chimps has never looked at a Chimp. Since when do Chimps have nappy hair and chocolate brown skin or even noses? Some strange racist biases at play here.
No one is closer to Chimps or any other ape:
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And you fail to mention that the distance between a Wolf and Coyote if it is indeed comparable to that between a West-African and a European is an extremely small a distance. Everyone who knows anything about genomics knows that Humans are an intensely closely related species with overall very little genetic variation in the grand scheme of things. Our entire species has less fst (fixation index) distance and time-divergence than Chimpanzees in Africa who belong to the exact same species.
The highest fixation index you will find are between remote, highly bottlenecked or small groups like the San Vs. Karitianas and even that barely exceeds a fst of 0.300 where differing Chimp groups can go up to 0.400+ and the distance between Europeans and West-Africans in the latest high res stats is not much above 0.100 which is not much at all.
We’re rent free in those weirdos heads too?
