3 ms·
I don't think this makes sense. If Neanderthals are the same species then there wasn't any mixing, it was just regular procreation. If there was mixing then Nea
by emteycz 6y ago
I don't think this makes sense. If Neanderthals are the same species then there wasn't any mixing, it was just regular procreation. If there was mixing then Neanderthals necessarily were other species.
- danans 6y agoI didn't claim they were a different species. There were more likely a long isolated subspecies still genetically capable of reproducing with cromagnons, which is evident by the presence of their genes in modern humans. And they aren't the only examples of that, either (i.e consider Denisovans)