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Interbreeding Between Homo Sapiens and Neandertals
There is no such thing as a pure species. No, people talk about races of human beings. That's it's an extraordinarily scientific idea. We know that most non african human beings have about four, five % niandertal ancestry. And there is some back reaction into africa as well, of ofnandetal ancestry. It's a very complex genetic landscape. So this interbreeding was possible because these species, or subspec subspecies, were genetically close enough to produce viable offspring. But we don't have any them to interbreed with. These species don't exist.
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