[count-your-change]

Tough to bury the old “apeman” ideas.

[varmintman]

Neanderthal DNA was roughly halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. Moreover, as Vendramini points out, their skulls are completely good matches for ape profiles and very bad matches for ours:

Image courtesy of www.themandus.org

Neanderthals and all other hominids were glorified apes.