Are Neanderthals ���More Sibling Than Cousin���?

How should the Neanderthals be classified? For a long time these so-called ���human cousins��� have remained a distinct species in our classification system, bearing the name Homo neanderthalensis and, along with that name, the characterization of a dumb, brutish creature. That���s how they were pictured in secular museums I visited as a teenager. But is that picture changing?

As we���ve pointed out many times at Answers in Genesis, that common perception of Neanderthals does not match with eith...