If the Splitters Are Correct __________

question 11

Multiple Choice

If the splitters are correct __________.

• A) H. heidelbergensis was an ancestor of H. neandertalensis
• B) Neandertals and archaic H. sapiens were all part of one potentially interbreeding species
• C) Neandertals and modern H. sapiens are the same species
• D) all of these

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