Ok so the problem I present to you is the following:
1. Imagine that in a reality like ours, europeans reach Australia and find human remains. They don't date them or anything, don't know how recent or old they are, but let's assume they are thousands of years old in this instance. The skull belongs to the aborigines but contact has still not yet been made for one reason or another. The individual is categorized as a different species or subspecies, but not as Homo sapiens. A few years later, they contact with the aborigines and the association that the previously found skull belongs to these still living populations is made. Question: would science revert back their categorization because of this new discovery for societal reasons or keep it as it was? It would've never been questioned otherwise.
2. Within the same logic, imagine that today we find a secluded and small isolated population of neanderthals. They have their own culture, language and all of that. Would their biological categorization be changed or kept the same?
1. Imagine that in a reality like ours, europeans reach Australia and find human remains. They don't date them or anything, don't know how recent or old they are, but let's assume they are thousands of years old in this instance. The skull belongs to the aborigines but contact has still not yet been made for one reason or another. The individual is categorized as a different species or subspecies, but not as Homo sapiens. A few years later, they contact with the aborigines and the association that the previously found skull belongs to these still living populations is made. Question: would science revert back their categorization because of this new discovery for societal reasons or keep it as it was? It would've never been questioned otherwise.
2. Within the same logic, imagine that today we find a secluded and small isolated population of neanderthals. They have their own culture, language and all of that. Would their biological categorization be changed or kept the same?
