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Re:Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to ... by paxys on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:17PM (#27990481)
Why not? We willingly breed with people who have extremely different physical characteristics than us all the time. Would a human and neanderthal from the same region back in the day be as different as, say, people of different races from the opposite sides of the world today?
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Re:Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to ... by jjk166 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:37PM (#27990653)
Genetically and physically yes, you would be way closer to a H. Sapien from the other side of the world than you would be to a Neanderthal who lived a cave over.

Perhaps culturally a geographically close Neanderthal would be easier to relate with than a more distant modern human, but that's pure speculation.

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