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Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by burtness on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:11PM (#16598299)
> sub-Saharan Africans, Euro/Asians, Melanesian/Australian Aborigines, and African pygmies

These groups are not considered different species or subspecies of human (homo sapiens sapiens). There are homo sapiens subspecies, but all except sapiens are extinct.

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Re:DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for f... by danieltillett on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:32PM (#16598399)
No they are not. They just bred with the dominant sub-saharan African species. I am a member of one of the non-dead hybrid species having approximately 2.5% Homo neanderthalensis ancestry.
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