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The Neandertals: Of Skeletons, Scientists, and Scandal
The Neandertals Of Skeletons Scientists and Scandal
Author: Erik Trinkaus
To one nineteenth-century scholar, their fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a "moral darkness" that set them irrevocably apart from human beings. Some commentators accused them of cannibalism. Yet by the 1970s the Neandertals were being hailed as "the first flower people" and praised for their apparent compassion and religious piety. — The sto...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679732990
ISBN-10: 0679732993
Publication Date: 3/15/1994
Pages: 454
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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A good history of Paleontology and the people who did what to develop it. Does not go into Neanderthal people that much but then the book is a bit dated . A good read non the less
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