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The answer is: Yes / it depends / this isn't a meaningfull question! Neanderthals and your ancestors probably did interbreed. We (for at least some populations) have Neanderthal DNA (very probably, the results aren't totally conclusive) But species isn't a very meaningful concept for such close organisms. Is Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens a different species? Is ...

First of all let me say that this is an excellent and well researched question. A quick recap from Wikipedia is handy: Outside the mainland of Afro-Eurasia, [...] megafaunal extinctions followed a distinctive landmass-by-landmass pattern that closely parallels the spread of humans into previously uninhabited regions of the world, and which shows no ...