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I think the term "people" is better. Neanderthals were clearly people, even if they were a different species.



They're (i.e., H. habilis) already classified as "Archaic humans." To call every H. "human" or "people" is ridiculous.


Any entity of genus Homo is (or was) human. Just not necessarily culturally or physiologically modern.


That's not what the word means. Trying to redefine language for political correctness reasons is absurd. Smh.


I'm usually the first person to complain about political correctness. I've just always considered humanity to be at the genus level, not the species level.




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