Images courtesy www.themandus.org, what Neanderthals actually looked like:
Without the ice age fur coat, for illustration purposes:
There is zero genetic evidence of any relationship between humans and Neanderthals.
and there is zero evidence of crossbreeding in the Levant despite the two groups living there in close proximity for long periods of time.
Neanderthals were smart, and they did not lack for courage. They were big game hunters taking on mammoths and other large ice-age prey animals with thrusting spears, but their only real form of interaction with humans was eating them, and they paid the price for it.
varmintman:
"There is zero genetic evidence of any relationship between humans and Neanderthals." Your data from 2004 appears to be obsolete.
More recent studies show 1% to 4% Neanderthal DNA in Europeans & Asians which is not present in Africans.
Your pictures are gross distortions of what fossil evidence provides on Neanderthals, among other things missing their large noses and necessarily white skin color.
Your pictures seem driven by some agenda which is neither accurate nor let's call it, very nice.
My post #28 pictures (except obviously the last one) are intended to provide accurate representations of what physical evidence tells us.
Here is another character study of an old Neanderthal man found in France:
