To my 5 year old knowledge I thought Neanderthals were different species but for us to have part of their dna that means they got jiggy together and created fertile off spring with Homo sapiens but when a donkey and a horse do it they make infertile offspring? Are we not like actual separate species?
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Modern Humans are Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Neanderthals were Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis. We are basically subspecies of the same species, or more akin to the distinction between a wolf and a domesticated dog (possibly even between breeds of dogs).
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