10. Plenty of Us Are Certainly Still Cavemen
To put it in perspective, Europeans and the Khoisan people of South Africa have been genetically different for about 300,000 years, which is not much less than the 500,000-year difference between humans and Neanderthals. This means that Neanderthals were more like distant relatives than a completely separate species.
Understanding this helps us see that humans and Neanderthals were closely related and likely interacted and shared genes throughout history. It’s a fascinating insight into our shared ancestry and the complexity of human evolution.