To ValerieUSA and All:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't I read something awhile back stating that Neanderthal was not a direct descendent of modern man - that the variation in DNA was something like 12% as compared to the couple of percent variation between us and chimps?
It seems they are still guessing and calling it science. LOL
some experts say that the differences in bone structure between modern and neanderthal could be the effects of chronic iodine deficiencies and very old age(as in the individual lived to be 100 years old). Often times modern humans of advanced old age in the present begin to resemble neanderthals.