Human/Neanderthal Overlap

[Madness20]

I don't get why there is so much surprise about inbreed between neanderthals and homo sapiens, it's clear that they weren't that much different from homo sapiens and could easily be mistaken as one. I doubt that if a homo sapiens found a neaderthal he would think like "omg that's an entirelly different species, kill it with fire!!!". I think it'd be more like "hey big guy , what's up, we need some help hunting a mammoth here and there and you look like big and tough, let's go eat yummy mammoth", and lived happily ever after.