We can believe the “scientists” (”You May Be Part Neandertha”l) or we can choose to believe the Creator of man, who has never been known to lie:
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Modern man would rather claim apes and Neanderthals as his ancestors than admit that God created man in His image.
This ludicrous “wisdom” is why “God holds them in derision,” as the Psalms say.