[LiteKeeper]

There is another question to be pondered: "What evidence is there that these hominids were excessively hairy?" Hair doesn't fossilize very well, as I understand it. There is a lot of imagination that goes into artist renderings of these hominids.

[Blood of Tyrants]

To that point I add that I have seen modern men that could physically qualify as "Neanderthal". I firmly believe that the "Neanderthal" man was nothing more than an ordinary variation of modern men the genes of which were enhanced by limited outside genetic contributions.