Book review: The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neandertals Died Out And We Survived

The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived

✍ Finlayson, Clive 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 431 KB

### From Publishers Weekly A cave on Gibraltar 28,000 years ago was one of the final homes of the Neanderthals. Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, uses his knowledge of that cave and others like it to explore the differences and similarities between modern humans and Neanderthals, and how

The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived

✍ Finlayson, Clive 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 269 KB

### From Publishers Weekly A cave on Gibraltar 28,000 years ago was one of the final homes of the Neanderthals. Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, uses his knowledge of that cave and others like it to explore the differences and similarities between modern humans and Neanderthals, and how

The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived

✍ Finlayson, Clive 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 OUP Oxford 🌐 English ⚖ 430 KB

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and