If anybody is looking for a deeper dive into the subject matter, I can recommend any kind of talks given by John Hawks [0], since they usually lie at the inters

If anybody is looking for a deeper dive into the subject matter, I can recommend any kind of talks given by John Hawks [0], since they usually lie at the intersection of containing decent information and being pleasant to listen to. In a talk he gave in Gibraltar [1] he explains the many difficulties with making claims about Neanderthals. I suppose the tl;dr is that we are really just very barely scratching the surface of understanding where Neanderthals fit into the hominid ancestry tree, but I don't feel entirely justified to sum up the talk like that, because it contains a lot of nuance. Watch it, if you have the time :). [0] https://www.anthropology.wisc.edu/staff/hawks-john/ https://www.anthropology.wisc.edu/staff/hawks-john/ [1] (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3258dAOxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3258dAOxo