[Jonty30]

I tend to lean towards the idea that Neanderthals just may have been a type of ape. It’s eye sockets and skull placement on the spinal column makes it more likely that it was an ape than human.

The lack of intermediary forms suggests no overlaps with humans.

[Red Badger]

The lack of intermediary forms suggests no overlaps with humans.

They were subsumed by Homo Sapiens.............

[PIF]

I tend to lean towards the idea that Neanderthals just may have been a type of ape. It’s eye sockets and skull placement on the spinal column makes it more likely that it was an ape than human. The lack of intermediary forms suggests no overlaps with humans.

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Human DNA would indicate otherwise, as would Denisovian, also found in human DNA. Its called interbreeding.

[Bull Snipe]

Neanderthal DNA in human blood lines? Must have been some “overlap”

[null and void]

The lack of intermediary forms suggests no overlaps with humans.

A few percent Neanderthal DNA in modern humans suggests intimate overlap with humans.

[ThanhPhero]

Cro Magnon had features of both.