Paintings from 65,000 yrs ago attributed to Neanderthal

[Random Boomer]

12. That is nothing more than fanciful speculation

There is no evidence that Neanderthals had a "racial memory" that humans are lacking. You might as well speculate that they could levitate or talk to animals, or that they could fart rainbows.

There is so much we don't know about them, that we can't possibly know because the physical record from fossils is so limited. But that doesn't give us carte blanche to just make stuff up about them.

And again, we share 99.7% of our DNA with Neanderthals, so they are basically just a different flavor of human. You're not likely to find any radical differences, especially since we could interbreed. If they had racial memory (whatever the hell that would even be), most likely we would, too. So it would most appropriately be a speculation about hominids, not specifically about Neanderthals.