Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by burtness 3013 days ago
> 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.

1 comments

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.