Question: What made people attracted to Neanderthals in the whole natural selection process?
Edward Smith: If Neanderthals could breed with humans, they were human. Biology 101.
The claims of evolutionists are crap, to be frank.
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<@Malingspann > #126035
Definition of species is based on the capability to interbreed and bear fertile offspring. In his first sentence, he’s right. As far as his second, it’s not evolutionists whose claims are crap, rather it’s taxonomists who try to classify species, and, well … get it so wrong. Canis familiaris and canis lupus come to mind.
Now it is possible that between the time of neanderthals and modern humanity, our genetics have changed so much that we could no longer interbreed with neanderthals, but we probably couldn’t interbreed with other humans from the time either, and both points are moot, because there’s thousands of years between us.
Sure, they were human, if they could breed with us. But since you're a creationist let me ask you this: Did Adam and Eve have the same opposable thumbs which, as primates, we all do?
Sigh…
Neanderthals were a separate and somewhat morphologically different population of humans. Neanderthals, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis , were a human subspecies. Due to belonging to the same species as base humans, Homo sapiens sapiens , interbreeding was possible. It is believed that the much larger Homo sapiens sapiens population competed with Neanderthals for land and resources and won, driving the Neanderthals to extinction. However, significant interbreeding occurred, resulting in a non-zero proportion of Neanderthal DNA being represented in the genomes of Indo-European and Slavic people.
Dogs can interbreed with wolves and coyotes and have fertile offspring. Genetics isn't as hard and fast as creationists think.
They reject Neanderthal ancestors because they consider Neanderthals to be inferior. Whereas I am happy to be related to some of the toughest humans to ever walk the Earth.
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