[Junior]

DNA studies have eliminated the neanderthal as a plausible ancestor for modern man, and all other hominids are further removed from modern man THAN the neanderthal. In other words, if we could not be descended from neanderthals, then there is nothing else we could be descended from.

Not true. Humans descended from Homo Erectus via archaic Homo Sapien. Homo Neanderthalensis also branched off Homo Erectus, making the former a sister species to us.

[VadeRetro]

Not true. Humans descended from Homo Erectus via archaic Homo Sapien. Homo Neanderthalensis also branched off Homo Erectus, making the former a sister species to us.

I'll bet you can't make him remember that. I'll bet you couldn't shoot it into his brain on a notched bullet.