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Originally Posted by Trocisp
My point is, it's a leap of faith to assume the two different homos could reproduce together, and that even f they could, their offspring would be fertile.
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It's also a leap of faith to assume they can't; we have different phenotypes, but as we don't have any complete Neanderthal DNA to examine, we don't know how genetically similar we are.
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