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It’s looking more and more like Neanderthal was just another race of Man

Believe me he wasn't just another race of man; his DNA was almost exactly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and this is what he actually looked like, images courtesy www.themandus.org, some images with fur removed for illustration:

neanderprofile, hairy ape with fur

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Neanderthal 3

I don't buy Vendramini's vision of SQ hominids evolving into Cro Magnon people, but his reconstructions of Neandrthals are totally believable and this "new(TM)" reconstruction noted in this thread is not. The real version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbmywzGAVs

I don't buy Vendramini's vision of SQ hominids evolving into Cro Magnon people,

I don't buy Vendramini's vision, period.

You keep bringing up this guy. He's a director and scriptwriter with no science training or credentials. You make yourself look stupid every time you post this.

Believe me he wasn't just another race of man; his DNA was almost exactly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee

From National Geographic (my bolding):

The genetic study team reached their conclusion after comparing the genomes of five living humans—from China, France, Papua New Guinea, southern Africa, and western Africa—against the available "rough draft" of the Neanderthal genome. (Get the basics on genetics.)
The results showed that Neanderthal DNA is 99.7 percent identical to modern human DNA, versus, for example, 98.8 percent for modern humans and chimps, according to the study. (Related: "Neanderthals Had Same 'Language Gene' as Modern Humans.")
In addition, all modern ethnic groups, other than Africans, carry traces of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, the study says—which at first puzzled the scientists. Though no fossil evidence has been found for Neanderthals and modern humans coexisting in Africa, Neanderthals, like modern humans, are thought to have arisen on the continent.