2022/31: Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art -- Rebecca Wragg Sykes

2022/31: Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art -- Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Things look different now that we know the blood feeding neurons crackling like fireworks in 6 billion living brains – yours, as you read this page – carry the legacy of the Neanderthals. That the vast majority of living people are their descendants is, by any measure, some sort of evolutionary success.[p. 377]

This is a splendid book, pulling together a vast amount of research from diverse disciplines and arranging it thematically.( Read more... )