If splitters are correct, __________

a. Homo heidelbergensis was an ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis
b. Neandertals and archaic Homo sapiens were all part of one potentially interbreeding species
c. Neandertals and modern Homo sapiens are the same species
d. it is impossible to distinguish archaic and modern human species from one another


Correct Answer: a

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