deveney said , `` well , according to the thinking of most paleoanthropologists over the past sixty or seventy years , the neanderthals certainly must be considered to be a form of homo sapiens , miss fellowes-an archaic branch of the species , perhaps , or a subspecies , a kind of backwoods cousin , so to speak , but definitely close kin , definitely to be considered human- '' impatiently hoskins cut in .