Evolution is real, and as stated above it does not move in discrete jumps, but rather slowly over time. Modern humans don't come after neanderthals, our species was alive at the same time as theirs. Although we are to an extent descended from neanderthals through interbreeding. People of European ancestry all carry a small % of neanderthal DNA. People of Eastern descent carry a small % of Denisovan.

The thing that I think is great is that the only genetically 'pure' humans are, contrary to centuries of racist belief, those who never left Africa.

https://www.nature.com/news/evidence-mounts-for-interbreeding-bonanza-in-ancient-human-species-1.19394



Ha ha. There's nothing wrong with being gay, but when you think about it (at all), evolution is as purely heterosexual as you can get.