Neanderthal either discovered or invented the wheel.
You may be a proud descendent of these inventive people.
If it were they that invented the wheel.
[Yoopers is excluded from this discussion].
Maybe unicyclists should try out for the GEICO caveman commercials.
WHo you callin’ a neanderthal? 
(Btw, i saved 50% on my cair insurance!..yes, I spelled “car” the way that annoying voice over jerk pronounces it!)
That is a pretty funny sitcom as well.
How 'bout dem Cubs!!!
Isn’t there some speculation that the modern man was not descended from Neanderthals but that the Neanderthal was a parallel branch of human evolution that went extinct.
Are you sure they’re extinct?
They’re often seen around these parts wearing backwards baseball caps and shirts from Abercrombie, hassling young women and consuming vast quantities of alcohol.
I’d argue they live right along side us Homo Sapiens.
Researchers prune Neanderthals from tree of man
AFP
6 May 2008
The Australian
PARIS: A new, simplified family tree of humanity, published yesterday, has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our forebears.
Neanderthals were a separate species to Homo sapiens, as anatomically modern humans are known, rather than offshoots of the same species, the new organigram, published by the journal Nature, declares.
The method, invented by evolutionary analysts in Argentina, marks a break with the conventional technique by which anthropologists chart the twists and turns of the human odyssey. That technique typically divides the genus Homo into various classifications according to the shape of key facial features – flat-faced'', protruding-faced’’ and so on.
Reconciling these diverse classifications from a tiny number of specimens spanning millions of years has led to lots of claims and counter-claims about how we came to be here. Various species of Homo have been put up for the crown of being our direct ancestor, only to find themselves dismissed by critics as failed branches of the Homo tree.
The authors of the new study, led by Rolando Gonzalez-Jose of the Patagonian National Centre at Puerto Madryn, Argentina, say the problem with the conventional method is that under evolution, facial traits do not appear out of the blue but result from continuous change.
So the arrival of a specimen that has some relatively minor change of feature as compared to others should not be automatically held up as representing a new species, they argue.
The team goes back over the same well-known set of specimens, but uses a different analytical approach, focusing on a set of fundamental, yet long-term, changes in skull shape. They took 3D images of the casts of 17 hominid specimens, and from a gorilla, chimpanzee and Homo sapiens. These were crunched through a computer model to compare four variables; the skull’s roundness and base, the protrusion of the jaw, and facial retraction, or position of the face relative to the cranial base.
When other phylogenic techniques are used, the outcome is a family tree whose main lines closely mirror existing ones, but offers a clearer view as to how the evolutionary path unfolded. The paper suggests that, after evolving from the hominid Australopithecus afarensis, the first member of Homo, H. habilis, arose between 1.5million and 2.1million years ago. We are direct linear descendants of H. habilis.
H. sapiens started to show up about 200,000 years ago. None of the species currently assigned to Homo is discarded, though.
The Neanderthals are declared ``chronological variants inside a single biological heritage’’ – evolutionary cousins, but still a separate species from us.