[PapaBear3625]

It’s looking more and more like Neanderthal was just another race of Man. Give that guy a haircut and shave, give him clothing, and most people would not give him a second look if they passed him on the street.

[DPMD]

...or in Blair House.

[Erasmus]

Or they would stop him and ask if they’d seen him in a GEICO commercial.

[varmintman]

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:

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