Revised Elevator Pitch:

Title: Neanderthal: The ‘New’ Race

Elevator Pitch: Race is a burdensome word when used in relation to human populations.  Despite the pain and negative connotations attached to the word Race it is a permanent part of our lexicon. However, culture induced semantic shift in the past has changed the ideologies surrounding Race.  With new information from the scientific community the biological definition of Race has been proven false.  By inducing a controlled narrowing of the word Race the lexical field that surrounds Race will also be changed.  Science will once again inform the public while shaping our racial ideologies.

 Through the research presented here I will show H.s. neandertalensis and H.s. denisovans are worthy of inclusion in modern racial categories. The purpose of this inclusion is to re-write our cultural perceptions of race and to further blur perceived racial distinctions in an effort to create cultural accord

Theory/Model: The theoretical framework for the semantic shift of the word ‘Race’ will be the Lexical Field theory.  To prove that H.s. neandertalensis and H.s. denisovans are in fact races of humanity the Out of Africa African hybridization-and-replacement model will be used with support from current research in genomics.  

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