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Re:New Species of Orangutan Is Rarest Great Ape by traject_ on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:41AM (#15617103)
Is that really true? From what I've seen from paleoanthropology, the lumpers versus splitters war still rages fiercely - see Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis.
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Re:New Species of Orangutan Is Rarest Great Ape by seszett on Friday November 03, 2017 @03:33AM (#15617283)
The person you are responding to is probably talking about modern humans. Where groups separated by geography and with a different language have definitely existed.

Though I would argue that at least in the modern times, communication and transport mean that no identified group of humans is actually totally isolated anymore from the other humans, which makes it more difficult to argue that they can be different species on this ground.

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