An artist’s impression of a Neanderthal lady
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The Bare Neanderthal
Ludovic Slimak (Allen Lane)
FOR most of our existence, Homo sapiens shared the planet with different varieties of human: the mysterious Denisovans, the diminutive “hobbit” Homo floresiensis, the Neanderthals and maybe others. However for the previous 40,000 years, after our closest family members, the Neanderthals, died out, now we have been alone.
“The Neanderthal not exists, besides in our minds,” writes Ludovic Slimak in The Bare Neanderthal, printed to nice acclaim in France final 12 months and now accessible in …
