Re: archaic Homo sapiens

Marius Loots (mloots@medic.up.ac.za)
Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:17:27

Vincent DeLuca writes:

> We are dealing with two *different* species, Homo erectus and
>Homo
>sapiens. It is a bit rare,especially in the animal kingdom, for two
>different species to have progeny eventhough they can have sex. Please
>don`t bring up the mule!

Homo erectus gave rise to Homo sapiens.
At what point do you draw the line between the two?

Because if you say that no interbreeding could have taken place between the
two species, you must have point where the offspring would not be able to
have viable offspring with the previous generation.
Groetnis
Maestro

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