[HospiceNurse]

I think it'd be perfectly possible to accord a Neanderthal every respect due a human being and still learn an enormous amount about this close relative of ours.

Do you think we should do the same for the great apes and dolphins too?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Do you think we should do the same for the great apes and dolphins too?

No, but then the great apes and dolphins don't wear clothes, use fire, make stone tools, or bury their dead like Neanderthals apparently did. Why do you ask - do you think we should treat a sentient being with such attributes like an animal?