“It’s impossible to talk about them as ‘them’ anymore,” he says. “Neandertals are us.”
Something I've said on this site for over a decade. "We Are Neanderthals."
What's it feel like to be wrong about something for over a decade? The neanderthal is a very advanced, extinct ape. His DNA was halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee, and we are totally unrelated to him other than possibly for similar design elements.