[blam]

"Of course we all wonder — what about the mating and interbreeding of our various ancestral human species? Have any of the traits of Neanderthals, for example, survived to this day among peoples of the world?"

Every physical trait used to describe the Neanderthals can be found amoungst the human population today. Some of the Aboriginies of Australia have even more severe brow ridges than the Neanderthals were noted for having.

[wendy1946]

Every physical trait used to describe the Neanderthals can be found amoungst the human population today.

Neanderthal DNA is halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. Other than for the possibility of similar design techniques, we're not related to them at all.