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Book Review of The Kin

The Kin
The Kin
Author: Peter Dickinson
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback


A fascinating and detailed look into the development of humans and pre-humans from four different voices. This volume includes all four "stories" which I believe were originally published separately and explores life on the brink of humanity two hundred thousand years ago. While the plot of the novel is more fantasy, than science fiction, Dickinson has done an enormous amount of research for this book and "fleshes" out scientific theories about language development, socialization, and other evolutionary processes.