Are you saying that neanderthals were not any more human than chimps?
Now we have a computer saying that monkey bones look closer to human to these bones, AND that the DNA doesn't look right and you still won't let it go?
Interesting . . .
Yes, your reaction is quite interesting.. Are you convinced we all came out of africa at some point fairly recently?
The evidence for neanderthals seems real enough, or at least there's enough of it. The others...
The next thing in line behind the neanderthal is homo erectus which is basically an ape, and the things behind erectus are more like monkeys, i.e. they're not even as far along AS apes.
In fact there appear to be two basic KINDs of homo erectus, called 'robust' and 'gracile'; that means they're probably somehow or other the ancestors of modern gorillas and chimpanzees.
All of which tell us that there's some kind of a story there about how modern humans arose, at least a scientific story to go along with the story in Genesis, but we haven't found it yet. And all we've really ever gotten from the evolutionists so far is a bunch of stories less easy to believe than Genesis.
Who knows what they are - I don't know - and I'm sure the paleoantropologists don't know. I do know they aren't human, and I'm not making anymore conjecture on the subject above and beyound that.
Yes, your reaction is quite interesting.. Are you convinced we all came out of africa at some point fairly recently?
I believe in a special creation of life on this earth by God - recently - perhaps ~6000-10000 years ago.