[r9etb]

Scientists know that Neanderthals and early human ancestors were distinct species, even though they lived during the same period.

One wonders if the Neanderthals were the inspiration for the "Nephilim" of Genesis 6:4:

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days-and also afterward-when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

[Ahban]

I have often wondered the same myself. If Y chromosome DNA shows some Neanderthal genes then it would support this hypothesis. THeir men took our women, but we did not take theirs.