Not just that, but we did the same with Denisovans in Asia, and in Africa there are high levels of admixture from a currently unknown photo-human, so yeah they are with us for sure.
The wiki on this is a fascinating read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans
We fucked with Neanderthals so they ended up being part of us again.
Not just that, but we did the same with Denisovans in Asia, and in Africa there are high levels of admixture from a currently unknown photo-human, so yeah they are with us for sure.
The wiki on this is a fascinating read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans
Oh right, forgot that.