Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens the same species
Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological record about 40,000 years ago, have long been considered our closest evolutionary relatives. But since the first discovery of Neanderthal remains in the 1800s, scientists have debated whether Neanderthals constitute their own species or whether they are a subset of our own species, Homo sapiens, which has since gone…