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Started reading this because the premise seemed interesting and I was excited for the Neanderthal portrayals and the science... Oh boy I didn't know what I was about to get into.
For an author that prides himself on the research he did about NeanderthStarted reading this because the premise seemed interesting and I was excited for the Neanderthal portrayals and the science... Oh boy I didn't know what I was about to get into.
For an author that prides himself on the research he did about Neanderthal kind, I find the depiction of these people poorly lacking and at times even sexist.
1. Neanderthals have good sense of smell. Theirs were even probably a bit worse than ours in fact. I don't know where this theory spawns from but traditionally it's always been accepted that Neanderthal noses were an adaptation to cold and dry air. Nose size is not an indicator of olfatory power.
2. Neanderthals secrete pheromones???? No????? That's just. Not a thing. What are we?? Ants???
3. Neanderthal women have periods at the exact same time. If chimps and Sapiens women don't have simultaneous periods (....like being in heat I guess??) why would Neanderthals? Strange thing to just make up unless you think all women have their periods at the same time of the month, which would say a lot about you.
4. Neanderthals can't pronounce the /i/. I suppose that may be true but the writing is not consistent with that piece of trivia it presents. Why do some Neanderthal names have an i in them? Why is Ponter able to pronounce it sometimes but not others? Make it make sense....more
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