Re: The Evolution Thread
Sorry it took me so long to get back to this, thanks thal! That helped. For some reason, in the back of my mind I knew this. I guess it must have just slipped behind the sofa of my memory bank!
So when we (neanderthalensis and sapiens) split and diverged from our MRCA, at the very beginning we would have been able to interbreed anyway because we were closer to being the same species - only chance and selection dictates whether or not we continue to diverge, or diverge a bit and then more or less stay parallel. Different enough to not be the same, but similar enough to not be unrelatable. Right?
Sorry it took me so long to get back to this, thanks thal! That helped. For some reason, in the back of my mind I knew this. I guess it must have just slipped behind the sofa of my memory bank!
So when we (neanderthalensis and sapiens) split and diverged from our MRCA, at the very beginning we would have been able to interbreed anyway because we were closer to being the same species - only chance and selection dictates whether or not we continue to diverge, or diverge a bit and then more or less stay parallel. Different enough to not be the same, but similar enough to not be unrelatable. Right?
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