Possibly, but nothing in the article states that.
But I'm talking about the bone structure, which with Neanderthals, has a different thumb spacing structure than modern man. (see C and D)
C & D look like the same bone structure drawn differently, but I’m not a scientist.
70,000-year war with Neanderthals created modern humans
Neanderthals were a race of super-predators that hunted early humans to the edge of extinction in the Middle East until, at one stage, there were only about 50 of our ancestors left. These resilient survivors evolved into modern humans and staged a fight-back that led to the extinction of the Neanderthals.
A major new study of the Neanderthal genome published in the prestigious journal, Science has provided dramatic evidence supporting an Australian author's theory that Neanderthals hunted and raped early humans.
'The Draft Sequence of the Neanderthal Genome' is one of the largest genetics studies ever undertaken involving almost 60 authors and hundreds of technicians around the world. Among its unexpected findings are that Neanderthal males mated with early humans in the Middle East.
The study, led by Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany report the interbreeding occurred between 100,000 to 60,000 years ago, before the humans dispersed across the globe.
These findings were predicted in Australian evolutionary detective, Danny Vendramini's 2009 book, Them and Us: how Neanderthal predation created modern humans released last year.
At the time, Vendramini's theory that Neanderthals were 'apex predators' who hunted, cannibalized and raped early humans in the Middle East between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago was considered controversial. Now that theory has been confirmed by the Draft Neanderthal Sequence, which reveals that between 1- 4% of human genes come from Neanderthals.
According to Vendramini, Neanderthals hunted our ancestors for over 50,000 years and almost wiped them out. “The only humans to survive were those born with modern traits like high intelligence, creativity, aggression, language and guile.” He said. “These fully modern Cro-Magnons turned the tables on their former predators and eventually annihilated them.”
"They also killed most of the hybrids that had accumulated because they considered them mutants.
He says that when the Cro-Magnons left the Middle East on their global migration, they inevitably took a few recessive Neanderthal genes with them.
Here is a series of Neanderthal reconstructions that ignore modern human bias.
www.themandus.org