I expect politically incorrect science to be denounced as racist on liberal sites, but it’s surprising to see it happen here. Either this research is correct or it isn’t. Whether some people use it to disparage one group or the other is secondary.
Granted, the racial argument has some entertaining aspects. Blacks are supposed to be inferior because they’re *not* related to Neanderthals?
In all likelihood "modern" humans killed off the Neanderthals, keeping a few of the women for themselves, resulting in a slight infusion of Neandertal blood.
It is amazing how carefully scientists dance around this prospect, trying to pretend the correlation of time of exit of modern humans from Africa and extinction of the Neandertals is probably just a coincidence. The myth of the primeval Golden Age free from violence springs eternally new.
Since we know Neandertals were stronger than modern humans and this recent evidence implies they may also have been more intelligent, then the question arises as to how modern humans won the contest. Fighting a guy who is both smarter and stronger than you is seldom a good idea.