WRONG!! The Neandertals were human beings, just a slightly different species from Cro-Magnun man - i.e. - us.
The next version of 'human being' will probably be a genetically-engineered 'superman', or a 'super-computer'.
We'll probably kill the first, and un-plug the second. It's our nature.
Geez, I bummed-out myself! I'm goin' fishin'.......FRegards
There was a thread a year or so ago,
claiming the Neandertals interbred with Cro-Magnum.
The claim was made that red hair is one of the Neandertal traits,
as in Irish, and Scotish type redheads.
(Really hard to think of Ann Margaret as a Neandertal.)
If they did in fact interbreed, than they are the same species.