The Last Neanderthal
Subtitle: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company; Macmillan, USA
Published: March 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780028608136
First sentence: NEANDERTHAL No noun in the entire lexicon of science is more evocative, but apart from vague imputations of primitive brutishness, how many of us can really specify what that term evokes-or should evoke?
Description: Marshals the best available evidence to unravel the mysteries of the Neanderthals -- who they were, how they lived, how they succeeded for so long, and -- the most intriguing question -- what happened to them.