See also: Where are the Neanderthals when we need them?
The Neanderthals live in us and through us.
We continue their line.
They were not evolutionary inferior.
Imagine 800 tribes spread across Europe and parts of Asia with 25-35 members each.
Then came the modern humans by the dozens and maybe hundreds at a time, mostly if not exclusively males exploring new territory.
What do you imagine happened?
English
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Myanmar (Burmese)
Nepali
Norwegian
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sudanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
You are so right, the Neanderthals live in and through many of us. My dna is out there too and I have learned so much about myself and where I come from. I have 329 Neanderthal variants which is less than 2% of my total dna. I find this interesting because I have had flat feet all my life and I am more comfortable standing than sitting. I do not look anything like the pictures that we see of Neanderthal’s. I grew up as an adult sometimes being mistaken for Farrah Fawcett. Our little girl pictures are almost identical. My dna links our mothers together as cousins. I find that dna is unraveling many mysteries of the past and present and I look forward to the future of more dna discoveries.