Just because people use virtuesignalling incorrectly doesn ' t mean it doesn ' t exist . So why throw it away ? <| sep |> Reminds me of Norm Macdonald ' s Weekend Update jokes about Bill Clinton and his Chinese donors . <| sep |> She was a pretty shitty candidate . <| sep |> Soon all that genesis madness will replace the theory of evolution in school curriculum and all those BS Christian origin myths will become established scientific facts . <| sep |> Yes ! Except around here , it ' s called punchbuggy . <| sep |> Neanderthals as a dominant species certainly sounds interesting . The only suggestion I would have would be to just craft them richly , however you see fit to do that , simply because people have a tendency towards struggling to relate to something that isn ' t just outright human in appearance and attitude . As for alternatives to homosapians aa humans , my most fleshed out fantasy world technically doesn ' t have humans at all . At least not conventionally . While in our world every human is more or less genetically identical , with society being the great divider , in my world humans did not evolve from any base species . They were sired into existence by a race of super beings who created mankind in their own image , though this image is only a physical one . However , as none could agree on what the ' correct ' way to create a man was , each god or group of gods created their own race of men . So while all the humans may look similar , most aren ' t even the same species , which is a large instigator for wars and other cultural clashes due to many of these human species believing that theirs is the objectively superior one .