[blowfish]

So the appearance of ... say the spleen ... represents macroevolution? And the slow continuous development of early hominids into Homo Sapiens represents microevolution?
I can live with that approach; we certainly see those kinds of slow evolutionary development throughtout the fossil record.

[tomzz]

Hominids never developed into modern humans. The Neanderthal has been ruled out as a human ancestor for being too far genetically removed and every other hominid was further removed. You can look at the skeletons and see the problem. The neanderthal's body is basically roundish like that of an ape while ours is elongated. The neanderthal was basically some sort of a glorified ape.

Neanderthals a separate species.