Quote (piddywiffle @ Apr 10 2013 02:54am)
Wait, what?
They all diverged from the same ancestor.
Just because they all don't live in the same environment doesn't mean that they are a different specie.
Quote (Azrad @ Apr 10 2013 03:18am)
maybe I don't know, that is way above my pay grade. But as far as I know the whole Neanderthal thing is kind of messy and not really resolved yet.
so what it looks to me is that you have Homo heidelbergensis that was all over the place. in europe this guy evolved into neaderthals, in africa he evolved in to homo sapiens, and in asia he evolved into denisova hominins.
In asia the neanderthals and denisovas likely mated so when the homo sapiens left africa, they mated with neaderthals in europe, and neaderthal/denisova cross breeds in asia.
so id say all in all, theres Homo sapiens, with in that there should be In my opinion homo sapiens sapiens as evolved in africa from Homo heidelbergensis, the homo sapein neanderthal as evolved in europe from Homo heidelbergensis, and the homo sapein denisovan as evolved from the Homo heidelbergensis in asia.
now per this we have the homo sapein sapiens as the pure form of people from african orgin, but then we have nothing for the neaderthal/sapien breed or the neaderthal/sapein/denisovian breed.
so IMO, same species, sure, same subspecies, not quite.