For those of you who dont know what FOXP2 is, its a gene thats for languistics in humans, you know for talking to each other and what not.

Now I guess its entirly possible that they evolved it on their own (very unlikly) got it from a common ancestor as us (more likly but still unlikly) or there was some crossbreeding involved that gave one speices it.

Then theres the divergance of races in modern humans. Some scientists have said that there was too little time for there to become so many races that there are now without something interfering with the gene pool.

As for some of you who mentioned Mules being sterile, thats not always true, every once in a while a donkey/horse (Mule) hybrid, will be fertile. Given enough time and a good number of them happening, we could have fertile mules breeding with each other and their parent speices.

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But I guess that's going to change now.

And I think some of these comments here have the faintest whiff of racism. The reason I say that is because Neanderthals are so close to us insofar as we can deduce their physical and mental characteristics from the tiny smattering of evidence we have that they all could be due to mere ethnic variation.

Don't know what to make of this yet. I mean it's pretty hard to ignore DNA evidence.

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