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Significant Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA stuck around because of interbreeding so there’s disagreement around if we’re actually different species vs subspecies

by Retric 2y ago

Significant Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA stuck around because of interbreeding so there’s disagreement around if we’re actually different species vs subspecies. It depends on how viable offspring were in general and we just don’t know.

fooker 2y ago
There are plenty of hominids we could not interbreed with. And they are all extinct too.
- Retric 2y ago
  > the last ~100,000 years Homo floresiensis sure, extend that a bit you can add erectus but after that? We don’t have a lot of closely related species in the last 200,000 years.