but more of a subspecies. Neanderthals had 23 pairs of chromosomes just like us and, as you pointed out before with various populations of modern Humans, without a detailed genetic study, their genome would look pretty much the same as ours.
The same could also be said about any group of subspecies though. I raise geckos as a hobby, and have several different subspecies. Aside from coloration, they have the same basic body design, although some do have long thin tails while other types have short fatter tails. Looking at them on the chromosomal level, one would be hard to tell one subspecies from another. The most interesting group are the hybrids that I've managed to raise. While some of them are infertile, others are born as hermaphrodites and are fully capable of laying fertilized eggs on their own. I've actually released around a dozen or so of these hermaphroditic geckos outdoors. Hopefully with the milder winters around here, they'll be able to survive and thrive.
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They weren't a completely different species,
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- Neanderthals were nimble fingered creatures
- They may still be around.
- At least two in this thread alone :-)
- Oook! (n/t) (n/t)
- So they were at least as smart as some modern Human populations.
- At least two in this thread alone :-)
- Some can type! n/t (n/t)
- They may still be around.