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Our non-human cousins.
Depends what you mean by human. If you restrict the term to homo sapiens you put yourself in a small minority. I'd say the fact that these people used tools in a sophisticated way pretty much defines them as human.
Human is specifically Homo Sapiens. The rest of the Homo genus, be they ancestors or not, are not recognized as human.
Nope. There are modern humans (homo sapiens) and archaic humans (extinct homo species).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans