The Neanderthals Rediscovered
How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)

A fascinating look through the study and findings of research into the Neanderthals. And although they clearly don't mean to, when they get to the bit describing Neanderthals in popular culture, they give a good list of novels to read next. I would recommend this book to anyone who is even the least......more

For me, this is an extraordinarily readable 2013 update of James Shreeve’s 1995 chef-d'oeuvre, The Neandertal Enigma. Besides being much more current, this one seems, in some ways, less pedantic and thus more accessible to the mildly enthusiastic science crowd. [URL not allowed]......more

Riveting account of newer strands of thought regards Neanderthal people that largely discounts any notion that they died out due to being a 'lesser' hominid and also gives the lie to the notion of them lacking the capacity for speech. Disappointingly, the authors put their disappearance down to 'cli......more

Comprehensive and very accessible look at our not-so-knuckle-dragging cousins. Makes a great case for Neanderthal intelligence, while making the owners of the bones look like characters from the Far Side. "Perhaps the single child in the group wandered into an uninhabitable cave and fell in a pit. Th......more

For a book that promises to be all about Neanderthals and not so much about our ancestors, this didn’t totally deliver. The Neanderthals are compared to our (more direct) ancestors in pretty much every chapter, and not just where the two may have met and interacted. Nonetheless, it’s a good survey o......more