Good article, although I don’t see that it necessarily supports evolution. If ‘modern’ and Neanderthal people interbred, it would logically follow that Neanderthals were fully human. Having certain traits, such as larger skulls and thicker bones, doesn’t necessarily imply that the Neanderthals were less human or were earlier examples of human evolution. There are strains of people today who have traits that are markedly different from the average human population—for example, dwarves and Australian aborigines. The traits that make these groups of people different don’t mean that these people are somehow less human or less evolved, although there have been times when people thought so, especially in the case of the aborigines, who at one time were often killed by Australian settlers who considered them to be less-than-human pests needing to be eliminated. This is one example of how the theory of Darwinian evolution contributed to racism.
Susan
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