For anybody who hasn't really followed the argument, the question as to whether the neanderthal dna findings would justify a claim that the neanderthal was "about halfway between us and chimpanzees" is not crucial to the case I would try to make. That's just a figure of speech.
ROFLMAO!
To anybody who
has followed the argument, the claim and case you made was that neandertals were literally about halfway between humans and chimpanzees
and neandertals were not our ancestors (see http://
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EvC Forum: Aquatic Ape theory?); nothing more and nothing less. It wasn't a figure of speech, you argued for its literal truth, and you were flat-out wrong.
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