[SunkenCiv]

Thanks all. This Aussie stuff is entirely invented by the author, and isn’t based on morphology. It’s more like something Virchow would have come up with if he were still alive. He kept getting crazier with his denials and finally reached the point where he said the Neander fossils were of a 17th century Cossack with rickets who’d stripped naked and hid in a cave where he’d died.

From the depictions down through the decades, Neandertal in a suit:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol306/issue5693/images/small/40-1-thumb.gif

muawiyah, not needles, but I came across Neandert-awls while looking for the suit pic:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol306/issue5693/images/small/40-2-thumb.gif

sadponies, another “wilma” pic:

http://www.philipsonphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/MG_0182-1-950x633.jpg

[varmintman]

I can understand the pain you must be experiencing with the loss of the cute little humans-from-hominids fairytale, but I can’t really feel it (the pain), possibly cause I’m laughing too hard....

[varmintman]

Another way to look at Vendramini's images is to view the one picture with the more serious look:

as a sort of a more refined and mature individual or "business executive Neanderthal", that is, a Neanderthal of wealth and taste, and the others (with the mean looks):

as just redneck Neanderthals. That might help you make the whole thing go down a bit easier...

[varmintman]

The ape who posed for the one photo which started the whole business:

of course is a traitor to the evolutionite cause and clearly needs to be found and re-educated...

[mountainlion]

If archeologists use a human pathologists to make a clay model of a specimen it will look human. Why not study other apes and get several models of what Neanderthal looks like and not stuck on one narrow way of thinking.