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Lucy & Andy Neanderthal. 3, Bad to the bones
After the humans leave their cave, Lucy and Andy decide to start an explorer's club with their new friends.
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Editorial
The sequencing of the Neanderthal genome is little more than a decade old, yet the story behind that work has already been narrated several times1 and its place in the study of the human past is well established. Now, the wider significance of that research has been recognised by the award of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Figure 1). The prize is awarded by the Nobel committee “for [Pääbo's] discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.2 In recognising the field of palaeogenomics, the award is a timely reminder that, today, important breakthroughs are as likely to occur in the lab as in the field. It is also a fast-moving research area. Indeed, such is the breathtaking speed of these developments that the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome came within only a couple of years of the discovery by Pääbo and his team of a previously entirely unknown hominin: the Denisovan. As such, in just a few short years, the human family tree has been greatly enlarged. Moreover, so fundamental are the insights of palaeogenomics that the basic conceptual metaphor of a tree, with its branches of genetic divergence leading to speciation, has been uprooted. We now know, for example, that the genetic mixing of Neanderthals and modern humans—once purely a matter for speculation and fiction writing—not only actually happened, but also happened repeatedly in multiple locations and at widely separated moments in time. Further, we also now know that this mixing of genes offered selective advantage to humans in colonising new environments—the Denisovan gene EPAS1, for instance, confers tolerance of low oxygen at high altitudes, such as in Tibet. Billions of people today still carry a genetic legacy from these extinct hominins; as much as four per cent of the genome of modern-day humans of European or Asian descent derives from Neanderthals. At a time when national and international politics is increasingly defined by the dichotomy of ‘them’ and ‘us’, palaeogenomics is revealing far more complex and interesting human histories, which, with care and nuance, can underpin a more progressive view of humanity.
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Lucy & Andy Neanderthal
\"Lucy and her goofball brother Andy, two Neanderthal siblings living 40,000 years ago, take on a wandering baby sibling, bossy teens, cave paintings, and a mammoth hunt. But what will happen when they encounter a group of humans? Includes a special paleontologist section that helps to dispel common Neanderthal myths\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lucy & Andy Neanderthal. 2, The stone cold age
\"Neanderthal siblings Lucy and Andy are back to their paleo pranks. This time, they have to put up with more than just each other--the cave is feeling awfully cramped since the humans moved in. They're in the Ice Age, and legroom comes at a real premium\"--Amazon.com.
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Religion in the Earth’s Children Series of Books by Jean M. Auel
The Earth’s Children series of prehistoric novels by Jean M. Auel, beginning withThe Clan of the Cave Bear(1980) and culminating inThe Land of Painted Caves(2010), contains a compelling vision of two species of human practising two utterly different kinds of religion. On the one hand there are the Neanderthals, who practice a pure totemism, while on the other there are the anatomically modern humans, whose religion centres on the worship of an Earth Goddess. Auel’s heroine, Ayla, straddles both religious spheres, but she herself initiates a crisis within the anatomically modern human religious world. This article examines the different fictional religions in these popular and influential books, considers the sources Auel drew on in creating them and considers the influence these books may exert on public understanding of religion, including among future cohorts of students of religion.
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Antediluvian
\"What if all our legends are true? A rousing, fast-paced novel of time travel unlike any other, from acclaimed author Wil McCarthy. What if our legends are older than we think? All the Stone Age has left behind are rocks and bones; all other materials have rotted away, leaving no trace. But what if \"cave men\" never existed, and the Stone Age was a time of great sophistication still preserved in our oldest stories? In a brilliant and dangerous brain hacking experiment, Harv Leonel and Tara Mukherjee are about to discover entire lifetimes of human memory coded in our genes, and reveal ancient legends - from knights and trolls, to flood myths, to the birth of humanity itself - that are as real as they are deadly. Before disaster erased the coastlines and river valleys of the Antediluvian age--before the Flood--men and women struggled and yearned and innovated in a world of savage contrasts into which Harv and Tara are thrust, unprepared. Will their science be enough to save them?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Neanderthals as fiction in archaeological narrative
A few years ago, Moser (1992) pointed out that pictorial illustrations of the past are powerful tools in presenting an accessible and convincing version of the past to a mass audience; rather than merely illustrating an academic argument, pictures are also powerful vehicles for putting forward a range of subtexts and deeper meanings. Hackett and Dennell examine the way various novelists have written about prehistory, and, as with Moser, the examples used will concern Neanderthals.
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Wells, Golding, and Auel: Representing the Neanderthal
In their fiction, Wells, Golding, and Auel subscribe to the approved scientific models and principles of their respective eras. Their divergent representations of the Neanderthal hominid reflect the changing nature of paleoanthropology itself: drawing upon fossil records, the study of man's origins and early development has been necessarily accretive, indefinite, and equivocal. These three writers all draw on major theories contemporary with their fiction, and the work of all three constitutes a useful and imaginative resource in our knowledge of early man.
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