RE: ... with whom our own species had repeated sexual encounters producing mixed-race children who were accepted by their tribes as another member of the family

RE: ... with whom our own species had repeated sexual encounters producing mixed-race children who were accepted by their tribes as another member of the family. This sentence doesn't read right. Race and species are not interchangeable. RE: ... Today we know that because of this intermingling every modern human beyond the African continent carries 3% Neanderthal DNA http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/neandertal-dna/chen-neandertal-dna-africa-2020.html