>>13706953another study in 2007, revising the figure to 99.5%
https://archive.vn/Xngj6 , which is the number you’ll find cited on many mainstream genetics websites, like 23andme. Shockingly, race denialists still haven’t updated their claim that “humans are 99.9% identical” — probably because “humans are 99.5% identical” doesn’t make for snappy propaganda.
Consider that humans share 98.8% of our base pairs with chimpanzees, ~98% with gorillas, ~97% with orangutans, and ~90% with cats. The 0.5% difference between human races is only 0.7% less than the difference between humans and chimps (98.8% the same), and 1.5% less than the difference between humans and gorillas (98% the same).
