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Well then why bother discussing pre-homo sapien speciation at all? EDIT: To put it another way, you wouldn't compare a modern european to a neanderthal and cal
by duaneb 12y ago
Well then why bother discussing pre-homo sapien speciation at all?
EDIT: To put it another way, you wouldn't compare a modern european to a neanderthal and call them part of the same people. The neanderthals still had large differences with other populations.
- carsongross 12y agoI'm not saying it isn't worth discussing pre-homo sapien speciation at all, I'm saying that the vague idea that the Neanderthals are some "other thing" from our genetic heritage (as compared with, say, Cro-Magnon) has become less tenable as genetic analysis has advanced. The story of Neanderthal is, for many of us, partly the story of us. Genetically, some of us have the equivalent of a great-great grandparent that was Neanderthal.