At some point shouldn't all these just be considered the same species?
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It's always a debate between lumpers and splitters. Dogs and wolves can interbreed, but we usually call them different species because they don't normally interbreed and they have important behavioral differences. Humans and Neanderthals only interbred a few times ...
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Crazy that there should be another super-archaic branch on the left with the West African population! Love learning about these new branches of the family.
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And move the neanderthalensis, denisovan, sapiens names down to sub-species level? Making us H. sapiens sapiens, Neanderthals H. sapiens neanderthalensis, etc?
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Homo erectus?
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Maybe those "super-archaics" became really "advanced" between the time they split off and the time they interbred. It is evolution after all.
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