[alexander_busek]

Neanderthal DNA is generally described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee; we could no more interbreed with neanderthals than we could with horses.

No offense, wendy1946, but that is a terrible distortion of the current consensus among physical anthropologists.

Neanderthals have been classified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (i.e., they were a subspecies) or as Homo neanderthalensis (i.e., they were a distinct species of Man - the genus Homo).

Regards,

[Scanian]

We could probably bred with them but we probably wouldn’t have grandkids with them.

[wendy1946]

No offense, wendy1946, but that is a terrible distortion of the current consensus among physical anthropologists.

It's a perfectly accurate statement of the facts.

"He said his team ran four separate tests for authenticity - checking whether other amino acids had survived, making sure the DNA sequences they found did not exist in modern humans, making sure the DNA could be replicated in their own lab and then getting other labs to duplicate their results. Comparisons with the DNA of modern humans and of apes showed the Neanderthal was about halfway between a modern human and a chimpanzee...."

I don't really give a rat's ass what anthropologists might think about it.