Here is the view of In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood by Dr. Walt Brown a noted Creationist:
For about 100 years the world was led to believe Neanderthal man was stooped and apelike. This erroneous belief was based upon some Neanderthals with bone diseases such as arthritis and rickets.r Recent dental and x-ray studies of Neanderthals suggest they were humans who matured at a slower rate and lived to be much older than people today.s
“”Recent dental and x-ray studies of Neanderthals suggest they were humans who matured at a slower rate and lived to be much older than people today.s Neanderthal man, Heidelberg man, and Cro-Magnon man are now considered completely human. Artists’’ depictions of them, especially of their fleshy portions, are often quite imaginative and are not supported by the evidence.t
r . Francis Ivanhoe, ““Was Virchow Right About Neanderthal?”” Nature, Vol. 227, 8 August 1970, pp. 577––578.
William L. Straus, Jr. and A. J. E. Cave, ““Pathology and the Posture of Neanderthal Man,”” The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 32, December, 1957, pp. 348––363.
Bruce M. Rothschild and Pierre L. Thillaud, ““Oldest Bone Disease,”” Nature, Vol. 349, 24 January 1991, p. 288.
s . Jack Cuozzo, Buried Alive: The Startling Truth about Neanderthal Man (Green Forest, Arkansas: Master Books, 1998).
t . Boyce Rensberger, ““Facing the Past,”” Science 81, October 1981, p. 49. “”