Re: Neanderthals horse or mule?
Peter/Stephen Sjolander (sjoland@ix.netcom.com)
6 Oct 1995 14:26:19 GMT
I agree they are a diferent species. My question is: are they a mule
or a horse? If they are a mule then we need to keep looking for the
horse. But then we would know that Neanderthals could breed with
H.s.sapiens.
peter
In <452rct$421@hippo.shef.ac.uk> "J.E.Hawcroft"
<J.E.Hawcroft@shef.ac.uk> writes:
>
>Neanderthals are definitely a separate species of Homo from
H.s.sapiens.
>The kind of intraspecies variation we see in modern humans is great,
but
>not to the extent that one group is so very highly specialised like
the
>Neanderthals were. What we see in Upper Pleistocene Europe is two
>different groups of Homo virtually co-existing, not one big mingled
>variable group. And the differences between those two groups are too
>large to accomodate within the known boundaries of species.
>It is true that Europeans are in the wider sense hybrids, but not that
>much. Sorry.
>
>Jennie
>(J.E.Hawcroft@sheffield.ac.uk)
>
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