Re: Were Neanderthals another species of Homo Sapiens?

John Harshman wrote:
 

Well, thanks for making an argument using actual support from published literature

 You didn't. What, you thought nobody would notice that you're a
worthless hypocrite who has to imagine points?
 

True, but the neandertal genomes are from much more recent fossils than the estimated time of divergence

 Which is meaningless.
 You're literally "arguing" that they remained different despite having
diverged...
 

One can also, of course, correct the divergence estimates for fossils of substantially different ages.

 "Fossils" is utterly irrelevant. We're speaking of POPULATIONS.
 "Fossils" don't diverge.
 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12733395/

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According to the above, you're shy about 75%.

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I didn't see any relevant claim there

 Because you have ZERO reading comprehension. The claim is that we
so called "moderns" today are about as distinct from Neanderthals
as two populations of cattle believed to have diverged about 0.5
million years ago. The cite estimates that there has been one
human species for most of the last 2 million years. Now do you
think you can work out the "Significance" or can I further taunt
you?