Geneticist Dr. Shi Huang: Strong new evidence, Africans closer genetically to Chimpanzees than Eurasians. Africans have a greater genetic heritage from archaic human species and are more closely related to chimpanzees than other ethnic groups. That Africans carry more ancestral alleles (=archaic or apes) has been well demonstrated by the rooting of phylogenetic trees in Africa for both autosomes and uniparental DNAs by using the outgroup rooting method. Biological significance of this? – It is a sensitive topic, especially in the Western world and especially in the United States, he says to Free Times.