Thanks.
It’s not really an article, rather a feature story.
And, it underscores just what just-so nonsense is disseminated to the public.
Claptrap like this makes physical anthropology look really bad. Probably not fair to the field and scientists working it it.
But, the general public wouldn’t understand and takes thus stuff as gospel.
I quickly read the original article and what I understand is that we have a different common ancestor with the Neanderthals than previously thought, and that this ancestor is further back in time. In this context “primitive” doesn’t mean inferior, but simply that modern humans conserved some facial traits that Neanderthals did not. We’re still around. Neanderthals are extinct, as are all other human species.