OK so I just found this article and I find it quite comical for several reasons, and I quote;
"The study uncovered the first solid genetic evidence that "modern" humans—or Homo sapiens—interbred with their Neanderthal neighbors, who mysteriously died out about 30,000 years ago. What's more, the Neanderthal-modern human mating apparently took place in the Middle East, shortly after modern humans had left Africa, not in Europe—as has long been suspected."So the basic premise of this article, as far as I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong), is that the Neanderthal and modern humans are two different species. The Neanderthal is supposed to be part of the missing link between chimps and us. Basic biology people, different species can't interbreed... that's the reason they are considered a different species. If they do interbreed their offspring is infertile. E.g. a horse and a donkey, when they interbreed it produces a mule, which in turn is infertile. A horse and a donkey may look alike, their basic makeup may be similar BUT they are not the same species... what they look like doesn't change that. So, if the Neanderthal and the modern humans did interbreed, as DNA evidence suggests, what other conclusion can we draw but that we are the same species, we just look different. All we need to do is look at modern man and all the different races and colors we have today; black, white, yellow, red. I don't look Asian or African because I'm white. Does that mean that we're different species? No! Of course not. Not to compare man to animals but look at dogs. Who, looking at a fossil , would assume that the bones of a Great Dane and a Chihuahua were in fact the same species but just of a different breed?
"... all modern ethnic groups, other than Africans, carry traces of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, the study says..."
""But the fact is that Chinese and Melanesians are as closely related to Neanderthals" as Europeans, said Reich, a population geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University."
LOL Nobody!
My conclusion? The Neanderthal was just as human as we modern men are today but just of a different race not species. What archeologists and scientists have found is not a missing link between us and whatever else but in fact other human beings, Homo, sapien, sapien just like you and me.
Why is it that in biology books they tell us that species can't interbreed yet when it comes to "proving" evolution they conveniently forget to remind us of that fact?
