Bex, may I ask if you read the entire article I linked to, including archaeologists saying that no modern human possesses all of the characteristics of a neanderthal? Have you done some research to find out
how neanderthals and modern humans differ from each other? Presumably you would like to learn about what science has discovered before claiming that neanderthals are humans with heavy brow ridges?
from a
blog called "Forms Most Beautiful", linking to an article in Science Daily:
The newest evidence on Neanderthal and homo sapiens split about 370,000 years ago according to Tim Weaver of USC and may well have been caused by genetic drift.
In their new study, Weaver and his colleagues crunched their fossil data using sophisticated mathematical models -- and calculated that Neanderthals and modern humans split about 370,000 years ago. The estimate is very close to estimates derived by other researchers who have dated the split based on clues from ancient Neanderthal and modern-day human DNA sequences.
In order to claim that neanderthals are as human as we are, then in light of the evidence above, you'd have to go back to the old saw that archaeologists and geneticists are liars in a giant conspiracy.
Also, would you like to answer my question about
homo erectus, homo habilis, and
australopithecus? How is one fully ape and how are the others fully human?
