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From: John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Were Neanderthals another species of Homo Sapiens?
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 06:55:02 -0800
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On 12/8/24 7:58 PM, JTEM wrote:
> 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/
>>
>>> According to the above, you're shy about 75%.
>>
>> 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?

Sorry for trying to engage with you. Carry on.