No one wants to admit they were wrong, the latest news on Neanderthals ...they aren’t beast?

So, once again, new facts are changing the way we look at the past. The first depictions of Neanderthals shortly after the prototypical specimen was dug up in Germany's Neander Tal gorge in 1856 were definitely not the kind of person that you'd want in your neighborhood. A 1909 depiction based on the examination of a complete skeleton by the French paleontologist Marcellin Boule showed a stooped, club-carrying brute. Recent reconstructions show that they weren't really much more apelike than the early modern humans, who began appearing in Europe about 30,000 years ago.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-latest-neanderthal/