Last I heard, breeding populations A and B are of the same species just in case a male from either can sire fertile offspring with a female of the other.
Now, recent stories in the press have shown Neanderthals and Homo Saps did plenty of that.
So why do biologists/anthropologists still class the two as different species rather than merely different varieties, aka races, of humans, as they do all living varieties of humans?
Would it play too unpleasantly into our modern politics and PC taboos about race?
Particularly if they keep up the story that Neanderthals were dim bulbs with thick heads.
Keep up the dim bulb part, I mean.
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