Neanderthals were people too

Re:Neanderthals were people too by Bamberg on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:49AM (#13388720)

"A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which two individuals can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction."[1]

As far as I know there is no evidence that neanderthal females could produce fertile offspring with a male homo sapiens -- but only the other way round.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

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Re:Neanderthals were people too by fanpuns on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:52AM (#13389660)

Here's a study that finds that the inverse was actually impossible/exceedingly unlikely (homo sapien females carrying neanderthal male babies). This outside of my field, but wouldn't that mean then that it would have to be neanderthal females carrying male homo sapien's babies in order for the genomic remnants to be observable?

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/modern-human-females-...

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Re:Neanderthals were people too by ZeroGravitas on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:55AM (#13391209)

The study seems to suggest only babies that were themeselves male would have trouble making it to birth. So female babies being born to homo sapiens mothers would still be half-neaderthal, they just wouldn't have Y chromosomes which is what the study was tracing ancestry through.

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Re:Neanderthals were people too by hasenj on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:21AM (#13389534)

Is there evidence that they could not?

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