The Neanderthals Rediscovered : How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story

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This is a brief overview of Neanderthals written by a Palaeolithic and stone tool specialist at Cambridge who wrote her PhD on the Neanderthal. It retells the whole story. You can see how they came about and evolved. Apparently the hand axe is the oldest human tool dating to 1.6 mya and used by m...

from unclebob53703

An excellent summary of the current state of our knowledge of Neanderthals, which is evolving rapidly. At the price I paid for it ($12) I feel I can afford to keep up with subsequent editions--this is the second. Written for the layman and generously illustrated.

from DinadansFriend

The title is descriptive, and the prose is workmanlike. The current news is a welcome summing up of the last ten years in this field, which can be quite contentious. Morse and Papagiani seem balanced in their approach, and the flurry of newspaper items in the 2000's was confusing on occasion. The...

from pomo58

The Neanderthals Rediscovered provides an excellent and up-to-date (as much as possible) overview of Neanderthals. This is one of the few works to concentrate on them as something more than a footnote to evolutionary development. That said, there is still plenty of context so even the lay reader ...