scary21:
My ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the WT.
A couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) I brought up the subject of the Neanderthals and how we all have their DNA except Africans ( the ones that never left Africa )
He said Neanderthals are apes and not humans and JW's do not teach that they are humans.
Jehovah's Witnesses do teach that the Neanderthals were human:
Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? (1985 WTBTS)
Page 95
Paragraph 34
“Ape-Men”—What Were They?
Neanderthal man (named after the Neander district in Germany where the first fossil was found) was undoubtedly human. At first he was pictured as bent over, stupid looking, hairy and apelike. Now it is known that this mistaken reconstruction was based on a fossil skeleton badly deformed by disease. Since then, many Neanderthal fossils have been found, confirming that he was not much different from modern humans.