"A new study published by researchers at London's Natural History Museum and Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven has reinforced the claim that Neanderthals and modern-day humans (Homo sapiens) must be classed as separate species in order to best track our evolutionary history."
"The study claims that if interbreeding was the final word in determining species status, then hundreds of distinct species of mammals and birds today would have their separate species status revoked and that without recognizing patterns in evolution and subsequent categorization, the question of when a species first appeared becomes more intractable."
Left-wing activist academics have spent decades arguing that Neanderthals were merely a subspecies of Homo sapiens — a transparent distortion of human taxonomy to support their claim that no human subspecies (races) exist today. Nice to see some academic pushback against this nonsense.
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-neanderthals-modern-humans-classed-species.html
"The study claims that if interbreeding was the final word in determining species status, then hundreds of distinct species of mammals and birds today would have their separate species status revoked and that without recognizing patterns in evolution and subsequent categorization, the question of when a species first appeared becomes more intractable."
Left-wing activist academics have spent decades arguing that Neanderthals were merely a subspecies of Homo sapiens — a transparent distortion of human taxonomy to support their claim that no human subspecies (races) exist today. Nice to see some academic pushback against this nonsense.
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-neanderthals-modern-humans-classed-species.html