The naked Neanderthal
Slimak, Ludovic, 1973-2024
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What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives - not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in palaeoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different - and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs. Their own intelligence, very different from ours. Slimak has travelled around the world for the past thirty years to uncover who the Neanderthals really were.
Main title:
The naked Neanderthal / Ludovic Slimak ; translated by David Watson.
Author:
Slimak, Ludovic, 1973-, authorWatson, David (Translator), translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2024.
Collation:
208 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781802061819 (pbk)
Dewey class:
569.986
LC class:
GN285
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
3798825