5/9/2023 0 Comments Kindred book neanderthal![]() ![]() It joins other recent titles in advancing the still-controversial case that Neanderthals were more cognitively complex than the old cave man conceptions suggest. Rebecca Wragg Sykes’ Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art is part of this revisionist reckoning. ![]() ![]() Alongside fossilized bones and stone tools, we now have evidence of symbolic architecture, personal adornment, cave art-and, perhaps most intriguing, the persistence of Neanderthal DNA in our own genome. Discoveries over the last decade or so have narrowed the distance, intellectual and otherwise, between Neanderthals and modern humans. ![]()
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