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>Even then we are early modern humans (Homo Sapiens) mixed with some Neanderthal. That's both reductive and misleading. There is only one living sentient prim
by nobody9999 5y ago
>Even then we are early modern humans (Homo Sapiens) mixed with some Neanderthal.
That's both reductive and misleading.
There is only one living sentient primate species on this planet. Homo Sapiens.
What's more, it's entirely possible that all humans are descended from a subset of 3-10k individuals who lived ~75,000 years ago[1].
Even more, there is often more genetic diversity within human groupings than between them[0].
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory