No, that’s pretty obviously *not* an ape footprint. Apes are generally arborial, having longer toes for gripping, and a thumblike opposable big toe, leaving a footprint more like a handprint. That isn’t the case with humans like the Neanderthals.
The Neanderthal footprint is more like the orang’s than that of a chimpanzee. It sure as hell is not similar to one of ours.
How do scientists assess the lowly ‘corn’ on the path of human evolution?
My experience has been that the development of ‘corns’ on hominids who began to walk upright should have created an evolutionary tendency to grow wings and eliminate walking altogether.