Comment by patall

The current de facto status is that the concept of species does not exist anymore, or more precisely, it mostly only still exists for historical reasons and coherence with it. When talking about genetic identity nowadays there is only the (type) specimen and genetic distance to other individuals. For example, Svante Pääbo and his team set precedence on purpose in not declaring the Denisovans anything but only describing a group of humans that genetically differ to an unexpected degree from modern humans.