Is it possible that there were other hominid species alive at the same time?

Question

Is it possible that there were other hominid species alive at the same time?

Answer 1

I quote,

"The skeleton on a 4 year old child discovered in Portugal is said to prove that Neanderthals and modern Cro-Magnon humans interbred. The 4 year old child is said to have characteristics of both modern and Neanderthal man. The child, said to be a boy, has the distinct chin of modern man but the body of a Neanderthal. - Until the discovery of this child was made, it was generally assumed by paleo-anthropologists that Cro-Magnon men and Neanderthals did not interbreed. It was also generally assumed that Cro-Magnon man had exterminated the more primitive Neanderthal man. Now it appears that Neanderthal man was not exterminated by modern man but rather merged with modern man; thus Neanderthal man contributed to the gene pool of Europe. - The skeleton of this child has been dated by radio-carbon dating to ca. 22,500 B.C. This date was also something of a shock for paleo-anthropologists since it indicates that Neanderthal man did not disappear in ca. 30,000 B.C. as nearly all paleo-anthropologists had assumed.

- This skeleton proves that modern man and Neanderthal man were in contact with each other for more than 4,000 years longer than paleo-anthropologists had formerly believed.

- It also now appears that modern Cro-Magnon man and Neanderthal man were not all that different from one another. Erik Trinkaus, who is a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and who helped excavate the child's skeleton, told a UPI reporter that: "This skeleton, which has some characteristics of Neanderthals and others of early modern humans, demonstrates that early modern humans and Neanderthals are not all that different. They intermixed, interbred and produced offspring."

Answer 2

It's confirmed.  Neanderthals were a different species of hominid than humans.  Humans bred faster and were better able to survive the end of the last ice age and so they "won" and Neanderthals became extinct.  What we currently call different races of humans has NOTHING to do with different species of hominids.  We are all the same species.

Answer 3

That's probably why we have different races.