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To: KyrosL who wrote (1773)12/11/2016 7:48:55 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 362349
 
Some may have touch more than that!



To: KyrosL who wrote (1773)12/11/2016 7:59:25 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 362349
 
<<<< Actually only about 4% of homo sapiens-unique DNA is Neanderthal>>>>

Africans inherited none of the Neanderthals DNA. Europeans as you suggest inherited up to about 4%. From wikepdia under Neanderthals;

Neanderthal man was classified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis - an early subspecies of what was now called Homo sapiens sapiens. The obviously unbroken succession of fossil sites of both subspecies in Europe was considered evidence that there was a slow and gradual evolutionary transition from Neanderthals to modern humans.

If we bred together - which we did - and the result was viable offspring - which it was - doesn't that meet the definition of being the same species?