No one can be really sure, but I do believe that there are a large number of anthropologists that would say that neanderthals are not really a separate species from humans. They were really not so different, probably not outside the range of differences we see among humans around the world today.
Take a look at this:
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/zolli/CAP/Gib2.htm Also, it is a fact that many anthropologists believe that the population in which the neanderthal genes run strongest today is- the Irish! Now that is not a slur on the Irish at all.
There was a thread on this subject here on FR not so long ago: do a search on "neanderthal" and "redhead".
I'd far rather be known as realted to the sweet girl in the reconstruction photo than to that true caveman, Ted Kennedy.
By the way, did the George H.W. Bush actually give Teddy boy hat award the Bush Foundation was planning on giving him? If not, they ought to cancel it. He is unworthy.
Great. Now I'm a neanderthal.
By the way, did the George H.W. Bush actually give Teddy boy hat award the Bush Foundation was planning on giving him? If not, they ought to cancel it. He is unworthy. COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 3, 2003 - The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation today announced that United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy would receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service at a dinner ceremony held at the Bush Library Center on the Texas A&M campus on November 7. Former President Bush will present the award to the Massachusetts Democrat, who will join former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as Bush Award recipients. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the Library Center following a 5 p.m. address by the Senator at Rudder Auditorium.
...it is a fact that many anthropologists believe that the population in which the neanderthal genes run strongest today is- the Irish! That's wonderful, now when someone asks me what my ancestry is I can tell them I'm half neanderthal lol.
Seriously I read somewhere that the Irish were closely related to the Dutch, who had migrated to Ireland hundreds of years ago. I always figured there was some truth to that considering my overwhelming fascination with windmills. 