I don't know how (unless you have very ugly kids :-)) you could think Neanderthal man was our descendant. Most of us know all our descendants; I have three of them, and none of them are Neanderthal, though my son's a 14 year old high-schooler, and so sometimes acts like a Neanderthal.
We always knew Neanderthals were distant cousins. The question is how distant; genetic evidence seems to be showing the answer is 'more distant than we thought'.
Oh, don't let us get started on our cousins ... or even worse, our in-laws!
>>>They are NOT our descendant as I had always been taught.
LOL!! Good catch. What I MEANT, was we are not their descendant.