Nerfherder
Honorary Master
Your world might only be 6000 years old.
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Neanderthals+Humans
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Er...no. Not at all.
Generally, homo neanderthalensis is no longer considered a subspecies of homo sapiens, since they diverged about 500000 years ago. They're still part of the Homo genus though.
By contrast, sharks and guppies do not share species, genus, family, order, or class. They do share phylum (chordata), but then, so do humans.
Another problem I have with this Neanderthal story is that I can't find proof of an actual HUMAN (Modern Man) that lived around that time. We have the Homo sapiens which I can see being with the Neanderthals back all that time ago.(I'm still to be convinced that we're part of those homo sapiens) But then I also stumbled upon a 40 000 year old skeleton which wasn't 100% Human like either. And the Neanderthals went extinct around that time.
If someone can help me understand this a little better I would appreciate it
The issue with physical proof (e.g. fossil record) is that fossils are rare. And reading Bill Bryson's book, 1 in a billion bones make it as a fossil (after surviving being eaten, getting buried into appropriate sediment, then surviving the perils of tectonics, and then being found). As well as the fact that 95% of all fossils are marine based (given that landbased bones are less likely to survive); we have probably not identified more than 1 in 10,000 (some say 1 in 250,000) species that have ever lived
If that is so, and unless we go back time traveling we will always have huge gaps in our knowledge of the ancient worlds
smokey
Honorary Master
Well, I think someone posted about how we killed them off because
1. We ate meat and it helped our brains grow
2. We were far more aggressive...
1+1=2