to be fair, the neanderthals weren't a RACE but a separate SPECIES, a species which was a few hundred thousand years behind homo sapiens. I don't think there would have been much incentive among the cro-magnons to breed with a group that had only a basic command of language, that was technologically inferior, and was most likely unaesthetically appealing, given their significantly different build from modern man   ...(waits for the inevitable black joke) You forgot the homo-jewiens at the time they said that species didn't exist, that it was only a social construct, cro-magnons and neanderthals are equal...    And how you dare calling them the n(eanderthal)-word!!?? the PC term is derthalis-europeans ;) :rofl     are you trying to prove the two species were essentially the same? i think the fact that neanderthals existed in europe for hundreds of thousands of years before cro magnons, content with their primitive tools and living in an essentially static existence should be proof enough of the staggering differences between the two groups ... this is the basic argument why I believe the only reason Negros aren't classified as a different SPECIES is PC BS... Just take a look at a genetic distance map:   http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/668/peoplesvo0.gif  I'd like to see a genetic distance map for the cro-magnon and neanderthal...  One for the wolf and dog should be interesting too...