[ElectricStrawberry]

YEah......SOOOOOOOOOOO different.

Too different to even be related in any manner.

[wendy1946]

Neanderthal DNA is generally described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. In fact one of the more obvious things you see in neanderthal skeletons is the rounded torso, which is common to apes but not humans.

You'd have to come up with some new hominid BETWEEN modern man and the neanderthal in both time and morphology:

...Those who traced the evolution of modern humans to Neanderthals, who died out about 30,000 years ago, held that there was a `missing link' between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens....

But the works and remains of such a creature, had it ever existed, would be all over the place and easy to find. Standard theory has the neanderthal dying out 30K years ago and HIS works and remains are easy to find, and Gunnar Heinsohn has the end of the neanderthal more like about 4500 years ago.