re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We tend to forget that genus homo had many representatives up until relatively recent times
The question is how recent is recent.
But yes, among the many aspects of reality that some many people may not be aware, or may be in denial, is that the genus Homo had quite a number of populations through a couple of million years, and that many of us evidence hybridization between two or more of them.