Board Thread:Clubs/@comment-38195691-20191127162526/@comment-44044902-20191221154022

Yeah, that's true, but there had to have been interbreeding between many animals for humans to evolve. Yes, I get that's not how it works today, but 2,000,000 million years ago... well, we don't know. So no, a new gene cannot be produced from two parents of the same species, but rather from two different types. There are two main types of our ancestors: Homo heidelbergensis and Homo neanderthalensis. There is common debate that we came from either of these, but a new study concurred that there had to have been interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis (gosh these names get confusing) to produce the "modern" human. "Although the narratives of human evolution are often contentious, DNA evidence shows that human evolution should not be seen as a simple linear or branched progression, but a mix of related species. In fact, genomic research has shown that hybridization between substantially diverged lineages is the rule, not the exception, in human evolution."

No, you're fine lol