I wonder if in future years we're going to look at "species debates" in the context of human evolution like we look at counting angels on the head of a pin. Over at BBC News Clive Finlayson has a rambling opinion piece up, Has 'one species' idea been put to bed? Finlayson, the author of The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived, doesn't seem to have a tightly focused point and the end of it all (I think warranted, considering how unsettled this area is). But he does conclude:
And a major conference is planned for September next year when experts from all over the world will meet in Gibraltar to revise our ideas about "the human niche". After decades of bad press we are finally getting round to humanizing the enigmatic Neanderthals.
In my post below I argue that it's most useful to reconceptualize ...
