Neanderthal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neanderthal write by John Darnton. This book was released on 2014-10-21. Neanderthal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When a paleoanthropologist mysteriously disappears in the remote upper regions of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, two of his former students, once lovers and now competitors, set off in search of him. Along the way, they make an astounding discovery: a remnant band of Neanderthals, the ancient rivals to Homo sapiens, live on. The shocking find sparks a struggle that replays a conflict from thirty thousand years ago and delves into the heart of modern humanity.
Neanderthal Man
Neanderthal Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neanderthal Man write by Svante Pbo. This book was released on 2014-02-11. Neanderthal Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An influential geneticist traces his investigation into the genes of humanity's closest evolutionary relatives, explaining what his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has revealed about their extinction and the origins of modern humans.
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series)
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) write by Dimitra Papagianni. This book was released on 2013-10-07. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Even-handed, up-to-date, and clearly written. . . . If you want to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of Neanderthal controversies, you’ll find no better guide.” —Brian Fagan, author of Cro-Magnon In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthal has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and spoke. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies have forced a reassessment of the Neanderthals’ place in our own past. For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals evolved in Europe very much in parallel to the Homo sapiens line evolving in Africa, and, when both species made their first forays into Asia, the Neanderthals may even have had the upper hand. Here, Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse look at the Neanderthals through the full dramatic arc of their existence—from their evolution in Europe to their expansion to Siberia, their subsequent extinction, and ultimately their revival in popular novels, cartoons, cult movies, and TV commercials.
Kindred
Kindred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kindred write by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. This book was released on 2020-08-20. Kindred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
The Last Neanderthal
The Last Neanderthal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Neanderthal write by Claire Cameron. This book was released on 2017-04-25. The Last Neanderthal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of The Bear, the enthralling story of two women separated by millennia, but linked by an epic journey that will transform them both. Forty thousand years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate. But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face the coming winter storms, Girl realizes she has one final chance to save her people, even if it means sacrificing part of herself. In the modern day, archaeologist Rosamund Gale works well into her pregnancy, racing to excavate newly found Neanderthal artifacts before her baby comes. Linked across the ages by the shared experience of early motherhood, both stories examine the often taboo corners of women's lives. Haunting, suspenseful, and profoundly moving, The Last Neanderthal asks us to reconsider all we think we know about what it means to be human.
