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I don't think that you understood my post. AGW is true. Icebergs are melting. But technically we are still in an ice age. It was merely a bit of pedantry. AGW may be the end of the ice age. Meaning that all of the ice may melt. That would cause severe problems for mankind. It could spark all kinds of wars and unrest..
Our genome will always be "Homo sapiens". Homo sapiens is merely our term for people right now. You might want to study the concept of cladistics. If I found a video for you would you be interested in watching? If not I will not bother.
They were with Neanderthal before comingling. Where else would they be?
What else should we be? Do you think organisms magically morph (change) into other organisms? Evolution does not say that. Where do you get the idea from?
Yes. Speciation occurs under relatively rare circumstances and require long periods of reproductive isolation. We as a species have not had that. But we have seen speciation in other species (like birds, plants, insects etc.)
But you cannot.
The more basic the organism, so the more speedily it can change, adjust, adapt, mutate, evolve.
The scientific consensus is that Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 to 45,000 years ago and the last ice age ended 12,000 years ago. I have seen no evidence that would make me doubt this. However, since there was introgression of Neanderthal DNA into modern humans, a part of them survives in some of us.
Thanks for that, Dan.
I accepted it decades ago. It explains the evidence that we observe. It is the foundation of the field of biology that I turned into my profession.Thanks for that, Dan.
Do you accept evolution theory as reasonable?
I ask this because clearly you accept archaeological evidence for ice age and neanderthal man ..
OK, yes, thanks for clarifying.
I also know that those techniques can be flawed. The dating ones.
May I ask what you mean by speciation? I'm asking particularly about your statement of "We as a species have not had that..." What species are you talking about? I'll take a guess. The human species?
Before I even attempt to answer that (I really don't know anyway), would you say that the Neanderthal man was a human being, i.e., a homo sapien?
It depends how long it is. Or even if it's very long (I hope not), I also hope it's not too technical. But ok, I'll try. But anyway, going back to Neanderthal and (or vs.) homo sapiens, are you saying that homo sapien is not a term that applies to the so-called Neanderthal man?
OK, wow. The Bible, however, has been preserved, passed around, and spoken about by many, many people. And interestingly, rather than center on the basic concepts right now (such as the health laws even for those ancient people in the middle east), it is interesting for me to note that these writings were held specifically and recorded specifically by a group of people, AND have been preserved in their basic integrity until now for mankind's edification. That includes the enlightening discussion of sequestering oneself from the possibility of getting infected by a diseased person. May I ask what other writings you may be referring to?
Yes. A species, roughly is a group of organisms that are similar enough to frequently and successfully interbreed in the natural world. (For sexually reproducing organisms)
No, they are called both : Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. I will look for a video for you.
ok, got me confused here. So both neanderthals and the regular type current humans are both called homo sapiens? OK, I'll look for the link to the video though about cladistics for starters. Let's stick with that before we jump to which is called what as far as homo sapiens.
Yeah, I guess that you believe in a created Earth, only a very few thousand years old, so subjects like dendo chronology, carbon dating, etc must seem quite strange to you?