Etymology and classification!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The name Neanderthal was given by irish anatomist,William King on 1853. The Neanderthal or "Neander Valley" was named after theologian Joachim Neander, who lived there in the late seventeenth century.
For many years, professionals vigorously debated about whether Neanderthals should be classified as Homo neanderthalensis or as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, the latter placing Neanderthals as a subspecies of Homo sapiens. However, recent evidence from mitochondrial DNA studies have been interpreted as evidence that Neanderthals were not a subspecies of H. sapiens. Some scientists, for example Milford Wolpoff, argue that fossil evidence suggests that the two species interbred, and hence were the same biological species. There is no evidence on cultural interaction.

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