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According to wiki "Neanderthals are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago." But according to wiki again: "A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction." Sounds to me a contradiction. Since we know that we mated with Neanderthals that produced offspring we should assume that they were not a different species than us. Why can't we say that Neanderthals were just homo sapiens with a slightly different anatomy (that, after all, one finds also among present humans)?