You'd have to come up with some new hominid BETWEEN modern man and the neanderthal in both time and morphology:
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.
I wouldn’t argue that Man descended directly from Neanderthal......but to say that they are soooooooooo different to make the assumption that they could not have co-evolved from the same common ancestor is not based on much more than the belief that Man walked with dinosaurs is.
Neanderthal DNA is generally described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee.No, it isn't. That's just some creationist stupidity that I'd not seen pop up on FR in a very long time.