For 10 points, name this brow-ridged Pleistocene hominid species named for a German valley and wrongly maligned for being unintelligent.
In a controversial interview with Der Spiegel, geneticist George Church claimed that he could produce a clone of this creature. Numerous fossils of these animals are found in the Levant, including nine found by Ralph Solecki near some pollen in the Shanidar Cave of the Zagros Mountain, suggesting that they may have conducted (*) "flower burials." Svante Paabo led the Max Planck Institute's sequencing of the genome of this Mousterian tool-using species, which confirmed that it possessed the same variant of FOXP2 as humans, but the jury's still out on whether or not they interbred with them. For 10 points, name this brow-ridged Pleistocene hominid species named for a German valley and wrongly maligned for being unintelligent.
In a controversial interview with Der Spiegel, geneticist George Church claimed that he could produce a clone of this creature.
Neanderthals [or Homo neanderthalensis; prompt on hominids or primates or other less specific answers]