[Blood of Tyrants]

So the jist of it is that Neanderthals were not (or are much less likely to be) ancestors of modern man? Do you think that Neanderthal man will now be taken off the monkey-to-man evolution chart so as not to deceive?

[js1138]

Do you think that Neanderthal man will now be taken off the monkey-to-man evolution chart so as not to deceive?

Exactly where do you think they were on the chart?

[WilliamWallace1999]

They never were on the chart as an intermediary species. It has long been held that they were a distict branch of the same tree, like baboons to chimpanzees. The two species did exist in overlapping times.