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01-09-2017, 12:21 AM( This post was last modified: 01-09-2017, 02:50 AM by GrizzlyClaws )
(01-08-2017, 11:54 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Thank you GrizzlyClaws. That was my confusion. I did not know that ingressus was a subspecies of spelaeus. I thought that they were completely different species of cave bears; as American black bear is to a grizzly. Thanks for the clarification.
Although ingressus was sometimes labelled as an independent species of its own, but their difference with the classic Cave bear is probably only subspecific.
Since all Cave bear population descended from the European Etruscan bear, while the Brown bear is more distinctly descended from the Asian Etruscan bear.
If the Brown bear is so closely related to the Cave bear, then ingressus and the classic Cave bear are probably only subspecific at each other.