Was going to debate you on your post; but after doing some research and gaining some enlightenment - I agree with you.
Thank you for motivating me to learn, rather than regurgitate ‘factual’ theories that have been proven false.
Wow, you’ve made my day.
The information that I have heard/read about the “Neanderthal” was that they discovered the bones of a very arthritic, and therefore perpetually hunched over, but thoroughly human being, and declared it to be an “intermediate” or a “proto-human”.