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.
No offense, wendy1946, but that is a terrible distortion of the current consensus among physical anthropologists.
wendy1946:
I don't really give a rat's ass what anthropologists might think about it.
alexander_busek:
Don't you wish to engage in civil discourse?
On the other hand, I suppose you're right. I mean, after all, what could anthropologists possibly have to say of importance on this matter? We laypersons understand more about fossil bone fragments and DNA and stuff like that, right?
Regards,