Perhaps (just perhaps) there isn't any such thing as a separate race in this category at all.Perhaps, just perhaps, you have an explanation for why no Neanderthal mtDNA has been found in over 6000 modern European sequences or in over a dozen early European human fossils?
So you are going to explain to me first how you have absolutely proven what Neanderthal DNA looks like, how it was collected, how you arrived at the notion that this DNA sample is what you say it is, and where you obtained this DNA to compare it to, correct?
Therefore, extracting DNA from any hominins older than Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is currently impossible.
That's OK. We'll just "fill in the gaps" right?
That alone puts the entire argument on sandy soil.
And then we can announce to everyone our vaunted "findings" and if someone questions them, here comes the attack.